A novel strategy: Always score for your opponents

[MikeReilly]

We certainly did not ever "collude" for the fabeled 6v0 approach. And I do think this scoring system is bizarre, but does suggest high-scoring close matches. I agree with Jeff, read the rules. I think there's way too much "Gracious" and not enough "Professionalism" (and I'm not a sore loser, we won). It was very frustrating to see a team ranked in the Top 10 that had trouble moving most of the time.

On one positive note from this strange twist, we did get some respect for our scouting team, and shared our scouting with others. There were teams in the Semis we KNEW were high penalty teams and avoided them. THAT paid off, and that's professionalism, AND we shared our info with whomever wanted it.

Play the game, not the angelic/doormat/everyone wins. We also need to teach our kids how to lose well (that was our lesson last year, and the year before, and ...)