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Anyway, I think you may have misunderstood the point of that post. I am not encouraging teams to take advantage of <G14>, or even stating that it is likely to happen. I was rather pointing out the many and varied ways that the rule ~could~ be taken advantage of. This is, in my opinion, one of many, many flaws the rule has, and not nearly the biggest one.
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I think what Rich was saying is that we can only police ourselves. If other people will do any "sandbagging" as you called it, then they will. He was just saying that all we can control is ourselves and that by doing so in a graciously professional manner, perhaps others will try to emulate us.
As far as the reason for the rule, it seems to me the same reason why we switched to a serpentine style alliance selection process. It will bring some added excitement to the games by making them more even. I was in FIRST for 1 non serpentine draft and the elimination matches did not compare to the ones we get to watch now. #1 Alliance used to win a lot more than they do now. FIRST went out on a limb back then by trying to even the field a little and IMHO, it worked out incredibly well. The people running FIRST are pretty smart, let's give them a chance to show us that a rule like this is a good thing.