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View Poll Results: To prevent rigged matches, would you like FIRST to set tiebrakers?
Yes. 23 44.23%
No. 19 36.54%
I don't care. 10 19.23%
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Originally posted by ChrisH
I know in the past we've scored points for an opponent in spite of their active opposition.

I have much more problem with teams "taking a dive" to lower their score in a hopeless match and therefore lower their opponents QPs.
Scoring for an opponent was used extensively last year to help raise the winner's score, and was a good competitive strategy. However there was also risk involved as you could accidentally help your opponent to the point where they were able to beat you in the final seconds and win the match. This is not the same thing as deliberately tying. There is no risk involved in going out with the sole purpose of tying (unless somebody backstabs you, but once they did nobody would ever trust them again anyways, so...).

As to protesting against teams taking a dive to lower the winner's score, the thought behind that strategy is almost the same as tying. Either way you are acting in your best interests to maximize your potential of advancing by doing something that might not quite fit the definition of "Gracious Professionalism".

com·pe·ti·tion (n): 2. A contest between rivals
(Notice the last word?)
 


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