On side ball use agreement.

[Eric Scheuing]

Originally Posted by natejo99

... at that point they've already benefited from it and gotten the ranking point(s).

This is why I think these agreements will never work. For them to gain traction, every single team at an event has to agree to participate. If one team denies participation, it gives them an advantage from a ranking perspective and other teams will need to abandon the agreement to keep up.