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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson
I'd like to know how you're going to earn a trophy without a focus on winning your matches. Maximizing your seeding points will help you to find yourself in the elimination rounds, but unless you've been playing to win you likely won't find yourself staying there very long.
That's how I see it, anyway.
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That's a bit of a false dichotomy. A focus on maximizing seeding points does not preclude a focus on winning matches. In fact, the two are pretty highly correlated. The argument is that there exist (likely rare) situations in which conceding a match is more beneficial than attempting to win because of the seeding points. I suppose I'm just irked by blanket statements that say scoring on oneself is never the right thing to do. As an aside, I don't believe the converse statement that a team should always give up/switch sides when losing badly is true either, but I don't think anyone is interested in having that argument.