04-08-2008, 10:22 PM
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6th Gear Developer; Mentor
AKA: Blake Ross
no team (6th Gear)
Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: May 2006
Rookie Year: 2006
Location: Virginia
Posts: 1,933
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Re: Intentionally Losing Matches
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Originally Posted by ebarker
... It is probably a pretty fair to assume that the game designers intend for everyone to compete in every match and make the best showing of their technological skills, not their superior application of game theory.
It's that simple.
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Mathematics and in particular the ability to estimate the effect one's current actions have on ones progress in each match and in the tournament are obviously technical skills.
It is probably pretty fair to assume that the game designers intend for teams to compete in a tournmant conssisting of multiple matches and make the best showing of all their technological skills throughout the entire duration of the tournament.
I presume that they would frown upon only viewing each match in isolation, because that would mean that the teams were disregarding important information.
It's that simple.
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