Exactly. I was just about to reply to someone else by saying pretty much the same thing. (rep!)

The thing is, Manhattan probably won't kill an entire team a lot of times. But it's going to be a royal pain in the ### to kill him. So all he has to do is take maybe one or two figures, and then he's technically won the match. And hell, if you play too agressively against him, knowing he's tough to take down.... he's not going to be afraid to push if he sees that your options for whittling him down are, well, whittling down.

In smaller tournaments, where there can only be one person with a 4-0 or even 3-0 record so it doesn't come down to points, a Manhattan team has a really good shot at being that only person with a lossless record, winning the tournament... even if someone with a lower W-L record is ahead in points. This is why I think he is really going to shine in 300 points.