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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson
Are you suggesting that some teams go out there just to grandstand, don't really think about the effect of that attitude on their alliance partners and the match results, and thus end up selecting themselves out of the elimination rounds?
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I don't think that's quite it. Imagine that you're playing your seventh and final qualifying match at the championship. Your current record is 3-3, so you are mathematically eliminated from becoming an alliance captain. You're facing the legendary team 46, and your best hope to win the match is to pin them against the wall while your partners try to score. You'd be surprised to find that many teams in that situation would sacrifice the good of the alliance to take advantage of their last opportunity to demonstrate their own offensive capabilities, in the hopes of being noticed by another team doing last-minute scouting. I can't say I'd fault them.