Getting Started guide
How Best-of-Three Changes Team Building
Build teams that can reveal information, adjust leads, and avoid one-dimensional plans.
Why this matters
Best-of-three rewards repeatable plans with room to change. A team needs more than one lead and one surprise.
A practical approach
Use this as a focused testing loop. The goal is to make one part of your decision process clearer before adding more complexity.
- Prepare a default lead and one alternate lead for each common archetype.
- Identify which information Game 1 can safely reveal.
- Keep at least one adjustment that changes positioning rather than only move selection.
Example to test
If your opponent respects an obvious Tailwind lead in Game 1, Game 2 may reward a slower pivot lead that punishes their defensive response.
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