A novel strategy: Always score for your opponents

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Originally Posted by Grim Tuesday

I would just like to note the fact that this was used AND WORKED at Fingerlakes regional today (no less, from a rookie team). They got into it with their alliance and the amazing thing was, the MC understood what they were doing. However, few teams followed their lead, due to gracious professionalism. In fact, however, their score on yourself thinking got them into number 3 seed, and well into the semifinals...

Pardon my "bolding", but since when did being unable to comprehend the rules equate to "gracious professionalism"?

A better phrase might be "few teams followed their lead due to a desire to win the match rather than advance their ranking".

Just because the rules of this tournament are different from other tournaments doesn't make them any less the rules... and make no mistake, the rules are the rules whether we think they make sense or not.

Jason