It accelerates rating advancement for participants and to a much lesser extent those who end up fighting those participants later. It's not going to make or break a team's placing, but it could be a fun early boost for a novice team looking to reach a point where they can temper something.
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Computing the probability that at least one of the following events will occur:
P(a or b ... or z) = 1 - P(!a and !b ... and !z)
Probability
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