[TheOtherGuy]

I'm surprised so many people are willing to adopt this strategy. It may get you more seeding points in the long run and place you higher in the rankings, but it is actually against the spirit of the game and FIRST. Breakaway was designed to be easy to understand, as seen in the scoring system. Dean Kamen wants us to try to get as many non-FIRSTers to these regionals as possible. When you employ the 6v0 strategy, you are effectively confusing everyone in the audience and complicating the game. This is completely backwards from our goal to promote science and technology to the non-FIRST community.

A second fault with the strategy is it has the potential to put teams of lower caliber in the top 8, making the eliminations less exciting (where the strategy does not work anymore).

While it may be a valid strategy, and FIRST may have messed up the seeding system, I don't condone losing matches and getting a higher rank because of it.