[Jim Zondag]

I seldom chime in on bickering like this but I will for this one:

The GDC decided on a new scoring system which is unique from anything used by any other sport on earth.
They probably thought that they were being clever, but in some situations, this system takes away a team's motivation to win certain matches.
I don't think that they saw this coming, which surprises me, since we saw it before we had even picked up our kit on Jan 9th. Hence update #16, which restores some, but not all, of the basic motivation to win most matches.
Still the situation remains in qualifying that if your alliance honestly believes that you will not win, your best course of action is play a 6 vs 0 match.

Some still consider this unsporting, but I completely agree with Paul: This is the world FIRST created for us, we are all just working within their system to get ahead where possible. If all 3 members of your alliance agree to play 6 vs 0, then there is nothing unsporting about it. It is legal, it is fair, and it is within the scope of the rules.

"Don't hate the player, hate the game."
If you don't like this reality, let FIRST know in any way that you can and hopefully in the future they will return to a more straightforward W/L/T based seeding system, which has worked successfully from 2004-2009.