[Anne_droid]

I must admit, I'm a little leery of this seeding system, due to the many strange scenarios that immediately come to mind, or have been described in this thread.

What I'm trying to do, though, is stay focused on my team's goals. Besides learning, having fun, sense of accomplishment, etc, when we go to a competition, we want to win. It would be strange if we didn't. But would we really feel good about winning, if it was because we came up with the best strategy to manipulate the scoring system? That would be a strange accomplishment. I think I would advise my students to just play the game as best we can, keeping in mind the seeding system in that offense is more productive than defense, and you shouldn't blank the other alliance, and leave it at that.

Maybe at the competitions, the top 8 alliance captains will be made up of those who are best at "working" the seeding system, and then their alliance partners will be the ones who are best at playing the game!