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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson
I'd like to know how you're going to earn a trophy without a focus on winning your matches. Maximizing your seeding points will help you to find yourself in the elimination rounds, but unless you've been playing to win you likely won't find yourself staying there very long.
That's how I see it, anyway.
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Quoted because it's so true.
There's a large difference between quals and elims and unless you've been apart of the strategy in elims then it's hard to truly understand. A generic example is teams who have a very bad qual record yet bring something to a table for an alliance to help them win, such as awesome defense. Specific examples are 233 in 2009 (Florida) and 176 in 2010 (DC). In both instances both teams played to win in Quals, regardless of the seeding system, and the result was experience that was used to get them a Regional banner.