[Billfred]

I'd personally like to see a couple of things happen in this department.

1) Ensure there's a tiebreaker. It makes things simpler for the audience (especially from the football-heavy south, where there's hardly EVER a tie). The tiebreaker could be anything--distance of your mobile goal from your alliance's wall, as a 2k4 example.

2) Dump ranking points as it was this year. I've seen a lot of matches from a lot of good teams this year, and there just doesn't seem to be an easy way to bring the scores of a weak alliance close without running the very real risk of gift-wrapping them the match. I guess the more radical way to handle it (assuming we've got a scoring system fairly similar to this year in total points) is what I call the 150 rule. If your alliance outscores your opponents by 150 points or more, YOU lose. (Kinda like the breakout rule set at some R/C tracks--go faster than this time, and you're DQ'd.) It still allows for wins and losses, but it forces teams to consciously mix things up.

I'll think of more later.