Or join until they wipe out the elite acolytes, and then fight. Clearly the elite acolytes have no reason to kill each other as they get no points, so they will likely be united throughout. Any division among the normal acolytes will only lead to their downfall.
Sounds like the best way to survive. Is this going to be the virtual arena again? Otherwise I don’t see why youd be doing all this killing. Seems like there would be far fewer Magus