[StephLee]

Has anyone pointed out that perhaps you COULD benefit from giving your opponent more seeding points by scoring for yourself, even in a no-win situation at the end of the game?

I know in the past, we have ended up with excellent alliance partners based on our performance against them in qualification matches. Giving a likely top-8 team a run for their money is, in my experience, a good way to get them to notice you, and such a game played without nastiness is a good way to get them to notice you favorably. If the primary overall goal during the qualification matches is to seed highly yourself, the secondary should be to put on a good showing for the teams that do seed highly enough to impact your fate for the elimination rounds.

Not to mention, if you have the choice between helping your opponent at no cost to yourself or not helping your opponent also at no cost to yourself (as in, you wouldn't win either way)...well, it'd be within my personal definition of GP to help my opponent.