[Bob Steele]

We recently submitted the following question to QA

Default G14 penalties
During elimination rounds, if an alliance has a penalty for scoring more than 2X the opposing team's score, will the penalty be 3 supercells or 1 supercell in the next match?
In regular team non-surrogate team play, each team would receive a 1 supercell penalty in the next match. This would seem to indicate that during the elimination rounds this would result in 3 supercells being lost in the subsequent elimination match. Can you please clarify how G14 will be used during the elimination rounds?

Thank you for your help
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GDC response:
Rule <G14> is applied in the same way during the Qualification Rounds and the Elimination Rounds.
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The way we read this...

If you had a terrific alliance and outscored your opponents in the first round of quarterfinals 3X You would lose ALL of your supercells... 2 per team X 3 teams in your alliance... for a total of 6 lost supercells (I didn't ask the question if this would carry over to the next match.

I can see an interesting strategy in which an alliance who has won the first match and seems to be losing the 2nd match dumps balls into its own alliance in order to gain the supercell advantage in the third match of the elimination.

I wonder how anyone is going to keep track of this during the qualifications...maybe they should have some kind of white flag they put on robots to identify them for future matches. A "2X" flag and a "3X flag" goes into your flag holder at the end of the match if you transgress.

Your have to "wear" this badge of "dishonor" until your next match...

Or maybe they should just put a big 2x or 3x on the forehead of the commanders for the teams that will have disobeyed the rule...