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Originally Posted by Nawaid Ladak
i wouldn't be surprised if we got some shocking results saying ... we were ranked 17th at the end of the day friday. but were 4-3 with 1 match left, and the 8th ranked team has 25 more ranking points than us and has 2 loses. what do you think this team would probally do.... drop that match and fall to 20something or would they win and risk themselves to either picking as a 8 seed or being picked by a 8 seed?
im pretty sure most of the top teams do their picking lists friday night, and make minor adjustments on saturday morning... so i wouldn't be surprised that a smart veteran team would tank their matches on Saturday for a chance to be with the #1 alliance.
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I'm confused with this part. Is this under the current system? If so, then what difference does it make if a team is in ranked 22 or 8? If they are good enough, they will be picked by the top alliance 1st. If you are assuming this team will get picked 24th (and not 1st) I don't think any team will take that gamble. I don't see any advantage to dropping a last match so you fall out of the top 8. (at GLR, if 2137 won thier last match, they would have been the 2nd seed, but they lost, fell out of the top 8 and did not get selected)