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Originally Posted by 1885.Blake
Would you prefer to throw the tournament?
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I can't follow the "logic" which leads you to ask this.
The choice is between two things. First is playing your best in a match, where winning will earn your team an alliance captainship. Second is intentionally losing a match (or not even showing up), which will guarantee that your team is not an alliance captain.
If your goal is to win the tournament, you obviously need to play in the elimination rounds. Only by winning the match in question can you be certain of doing that. If you aren't in a position to choose your partners, you are at the mercy of the alliance selection process. You're counting on being lucky enough to be picked in the second round by a high-seeded team. Any number of things can trip up that "strategy".
Don't forget the high probability that your actions will mark you as unprofessional and thus unworthy of being picked at all.
This isn't a competition to see who can best manipulate the odds according to game theory. This is a competition to see who can be the best team, with a secondary competition to see who can best play the game. Throwing a match is
not playing the game.