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Unread 09-03-2010, 09:06
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Re: Do you like the seeding system?

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Originally Posted by Matt Howard View Post
I've never seen a season where teams have actively considered going onto the field and doing their worst, because scoring 0 wouldn't allow the other alliance to travel as far in the rankings.
This is what I don't think teams are seeing... if you score in a situation where you can't win, not only are you "helping your opponent in the rankings" but you are also potentially starving them of balls that they could be using the boost YOUR rank score. In the matches where we played 3v0 or 6v0 it wasnt to HURT the other alliance, it was to HELP ours. We let them have all 12 balls so that they could maximize the field score, rather than playing defense or fighting over balls.
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