Summary of Ranking System

[Tom Ore]

I'm wondering if there is an opportunity for the two alliances to cooperate a bit to drive up their ranking score. Suppose each alliance agreed to throw 3 (or 4) game pieces directly into the other alliance's scoring area. These could be scored easily to drive up the ranking score and the rest of the match would proceed normally.

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by Tom Ore

I'm wondering if there is an opportunity for the two alliances to cooperate a bit to drive up their ranking score. Suppose each alliance agreed to throw 3 (or 4) game pieces directly into the other alliance's scoring area. These could be scored easily to drive up the ranking score and the rest of the match would proceed normally.

Facilitating scoring for your opponents is nothing new--1114 ruffled a few feathers (but totally did nothing wrong) in 2006 when they lit up their opponent's goal in a safely-put-away match--but Tom's hit on the best way to handle it this year. You can't directly score for your opponents without getting flagged five ways to Friday, but parking game pieces would allow you to tighten up a put-away match.

(Cue human players working on their arc throws to land directly on the grid...)