For all those suggesting that scoring into your opponent's goal is not GP or is not in the spirit of FIRST, I submit the following excerpt from
Dean's Coopertition Patent
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One embodiment of the invention is a system and method for creating cooperation and gracious professionalism during a competition. According to one embodiment of the invention, a first participating player, team, or alliance is motivated to cooperate with a second participating player, team, or alliance by rewarding the first participating player, team, or alliance for assisting the second participating player, team, or alliance to achieve a higher score than might otherwise have been the attainable. One particular embodiment of this invention is to award the first participating player, team, or alliance that obtained the highest number of points during competition with a score comprised of the number of points obtained by the first participating player, team, or alliance plus twice the number of points obtained by the second participating player, team, or alliance.
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Emphasis mine.
This says to me that GDC both anticipated and desired the cooperative aspect created by this seeding system.
As I have said before, I am against collusive agreements between alliances. However, I feel that an alliance deciding, on their own, to cooperate for their opponent either in the form of 6v0 or in the form of only scoring a few goals to increase seeding points in a win is not only not against the spirit of FIRST and GP, but is exactly what the patent describes.