[EricH]

Originally Posted by SuperNerd256

3 alliances with 2 teams on each? Or the standard 3 teams? That would be interesting!

More than you know.

3-alliance (OK, 3 single teams) games lead to the 2-alliance games we know and love. Seems that the "weaker" teams kept pairing up against the "strongest" team in a given match. 1 strong team isn't quite a match for 2 weak teams, so the strong teams lost quite a lot. It could not be proved that the weaker teams colluded/allied...but it couldn't be disproved either. The result? Alliances were required starting in 1999.