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21-03-2010, 14:21

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Re: Coopertition Award.

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Originally Posted by =Martin=Taylor=

Something is very wrong with this award.

The spirit of the award is to celebrate coopertition by helping your opponents to compete. But in reality it celebrates the highest seeded team.

Something is wrong here.

Considering that scoring for your opponents when you win is the least cooperative thing to do, this award has always puzzled me. It's the most selfish choice, by far, when you could be helping your opponents a lot more by running up your own score.

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