One of the things that amazes me is the attitude towards the high player in ffa, people consider him the highest priority target for destruction, but in fact this is a complete delusion.

An approximate list of priority who should win the game:

1. You
2. High player
3. Others are relatively elo

If you think that by getting together you will kill the strongest player, then you remain in competition with other players and, having lost, you will lose a lot of Elo, the worst option for you if the player who has less Elo wins. If the high player wins, you will lose almost a couple of Elo points

All of this assumes that the objective of a given FFA player is to maximise their rating gain. I expect most FFA players are more motivated by trying to win the game at hand, and some would even welcome losing some rating.

hm, although this is true in theory.

If you are teaming up with a weaker player, and u manage to make them fight a lot, while u just help out a little bit, the game might even gets back to the point where u have a realisic chance of winning.
And we all know these are the sweetest victories.

(I shouldn't be posting this, knowing that i am often getting teamed on)