9.3.4 Match Seeding Points

[SteveGPage]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

Say team X is on the red alliance and team Y isn't playing. Team Y is done playing matches and has 100 seeding points. Team X has one match remaining and has 80 seeding points. In a competitive match, the red alliance might win 6-5 and get 16 seeding points (not enough for Team X to catch Team Y). In a colluded match, the red alliance might win 21-0, and Team X could pass Team Y. Or they could attempt to tie 7-7 and earn 21 seeding points for both alliances, in which case Team X passes Team Y as well.

True, but I think with X, Y, and Z playing against A, B, C the motives of the individual teams gets a little messy! The hardest part of this concept is keeping all 6 teams in the match honest with the "agreement" made, when each may have a very pressing reason to defect from the agreement.