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Originally Posted by ScottOliveira
It's actually much better for both alliances to say this, and then one to cheat at the end (the cheating team will receive more points). However if a team cheats, it's less likely to be able to use this strategy on later matches, as other teams won't trust them. However, in the last match an alliance plays it is more likely to cheat, because the trust matters little after that point. Using game theory again, specifically backwards induction, it's possible to show that everyone will cheat every single game (game theory doesn't account for honor, only an effort to maximize points).
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Maybe I should rephrase that. It would be most beneficial to both alliances to do so, but that is an ideal scenario which will likely not happen due to competition. It is the situation in which the gain of one team is not necessarily at the expense of the other per say (or at least not as large of an expense both in overall seeding and the tiebreaker).