The "noodle agreement" is back! Now the defense agreement.

[IronicDeadBird]

Originally Posted by EricDrost

Because every team at an event can collude to do this with every alliance EXCEPT the best team's alliances to comparatively deflate their ranking.

Sorry every team at an event we decide what team to gang up on. That team is decided by every alliance going "this team is objectively better and we need to deflate the score" again we all agree that a team is objectively better. After that you all agree to pick easy defenses (which by the way sorry to you students for making you do 6 weeks of building and designing for every instance we are just going to agree on a new set of instances that are easier). That isn't going to happen.
Even if you deflate the scores enough to get a tie isn't the next determining factor auto, so then do we need an auto agreement too? How will this even effect the final alliance, you all got to the end with ranking points now that you can't rely on the crutch you used to make it to the end you now still have to outplay the other side.
All you have done is create extra work.