The Update, it fixes nothing! (AKA: why is everyone so excited about Update #16?)

[JackG]

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.

The judicious use of self-scoring seems to me to be the one way that improves your chances of playing in the afternoon without making your team more valuable. Nonetheless, if we consider a higher seed to be more valuable, self-scoring may be able to help your team by allowing your team a better pick of partners. While you may not be helping your elimination alliance by bettering yourself, you are helping your alliance by acquiring better partners.

This is one of the few ways that teams cannot help themselves besides improving their robot/driving. Unless you're a dynasty team (and the Technokats are, so it may be harder to relate), you're running a rat race of teams of closely matched abilities. Every edge you can gain is valuable.