[EricH]

Originally Posted by 340x4xLife

If you ask the majority of the teams why they think the rule is in place I think they would tell you that it's to discourage teams form running up the score.

What else could it be?

To encourage blowing out the other alliance? Certainly not.

If you get penalized for blowing out your opposing alliance, it seems to me that the GDC wanted to discourage that.

What about strategy? Maybe (I'm not on the GDC) the GDC wanted to encourage strategy instead of pounding defense/offense. So they have that rule in place to encourage teams to think about strategy, i.e., "We're up against 1114 and 217 next match, and we are up against a couple of bricks on wheels this match. We *might* need those Super Cells and a bit of luck. Let's get those Super Cells by not scoring too much this round."