Summer sale free games, now 2nd and 3rd place can win free games

I got cards when the purple team one so I think that it's like a prize only if you contribute points.

Yeah, I just realized earlier that Valve is "double dipping" with the event card transaction feeds. Normally, there's 5% for Valve and 10% for the publisher. But in this case Valve gets both fees.

This is a contest, I think the reddit idea was stupid.
Any other contest nobody is going to help thier opponent beat them, defeats the point of having a contest.

the agreement was for the 1st place, and I see no reason not to keep this one.

Now...the competition will be between 2nd and 3rd only.

+1

Well, even if everyone did try to cooperate, they've made it nearly impossible. First, I'm not sure if there is a way to split the remaining days fairly now that there's 3 tiers. Second, even if there is, or the plan is to keep the agreement regarding the first place, but let the 2nd and 3rd spots open to competition, it'll be nearly impossible to achieve the needed coordination for it.

The reason the plan worked so well was because of the natural dynamics of the system. Once any team had a clear lead, everyone in that team would want to get at least 1 point, whereas mostly everyone else in the other teams would just give up.

With a large crowd of redditors and specially a good amount of big spenders it's relatively easy to get that lead at the start, or whenever the teams are closely matched. Then just let the rest of the participants that aren't "in" follow their natural tendency.

Edit: Erm, correction. Yes, it's possible to distribute all three places equally. Still, the rest of the coordination problems remain.

Yes, how dare they give more games to us? (And screw up the system we put in place to screw them)