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An analogy for the ME situaion outside the ME
From a forthcoming SF book:
a scrum of red, yellow, and blue T-shirted figures heaved across it. The boot-polo team elimination rounds had been going on since midmorning, she understood.
(snip)
The Admiral and Vicereine’s party had arrived in time for the deciding match of the day, between the surviving teams of the prior rounds.
Miles explained aside to Ekaterin: “With three teams, the obvious strategy is to hang back and let the other two wear each other down, then swoop in. Everybody knows this, so they pay attention to not letting each other slack off. For a game so devoted to bashing each other, it’s remarkably cooperative.” Though such cooperation could shift around suddenly and rapidly.
((make that at least four teams...))
