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Originally Posted by ttldomination
Secondly, if I were that losing team, I honestly wouldn't care, because that wouldn't affect my playing later. If they're already going to win, then kudos to them and they can change that however they wish.
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However, as the OP points out, if you're in an elimination round it will affect your playing. If you can make sure the G14 goes through in the first game of an elimination round, then you take away one of their super cells.
Honestly, if I were losing in an elim round and my coach pointed out that one of the teams was going to score on their own alliance's trailer, I would try to stop it. In one of the Waterloo regionals, an alliance scored 3 super cells. Now imagine if one the HPs didn't have that super cell - it could have affected the outcome of the match.
I think it's a viable strategy and if you're that losing alliance you'd might as well hedge your bets by making sure they lose that one SC, even if it may not do anything in the next match. It's worth a shot.
I for one though, would be slightly irritated if I was on the winning alliance and someone did that to me during the qualifying rounds. I guess people can cite that it could possibly help them out in the rankings by causing a team to lose in the future, but I think it's kind of a jerk (for lack of a better word) move in the qualifiers.
-Greg