[kirtar]

Originally Posted by leafy

Everyone being your alliance, or everyone being people in the competition? In the former, yes. In the latter, no; The cooperition bonus is only deterministic of the seeding rank with people whom you tie seeding points. If you don't score any points, the maximum points the other team can get (will get) is increased (even doubled or more) because you aren't going after any balls.

Everyone in this case == everyone (and I repeat... everyone), so it would be the latter

Originally Posted by EricH

Actually, if you had read the thread, there are two points of view. You have one of them.

The other is that the coopertition bonus is added to your seeding points (hence the "bonus" part), to produce a much higher seeding point total. Instead of the winner getting their own score as seeding points, the winner gets their own score plus their coopertition bonus as seeding points.

Also note:
9.3.7
Now, see this:
9.3.5
In other words, the Coopertition Bonus is in fact seeding points, which in fact are added to the seeding score, which is your ranking.

Winners have a distinct advantage here, especially in close games.

I agree. How the manual is worded at this specific point in time, it is abundantly clear that the Coopertition Bonus is a part of your total seeding score as well as the first tiebreaker. It is a bonus not a separate score, otherwise it wouldn't say that it was a bonus of additional seeding points.