So how would this work? Let's take a two team competition as an example, Team A 'loses' the game by running out of cards in the player deck while Team B wins a hard fought game.
Team A loses in a 'long game' they face and survive four epidemics, cures 3 of the 4 diseases and manages to eradicate two of them and manages the diseases well enough to have only unleashed 1 outbreak and keeping a total of 34 cities disease free and 68 of the disease cubes in the supplies.
By winning a hard fought game Team B has unleashed 5 outbreaks, only has 14 cities disease free, the supplies have 30 disease cubes, and finally they managed to survive 3 epidemics.
Here would be the scoring:
| Achievements | Points Awarded | Team A | Team B |
| Win the game | 100 | 0 | 100 |
| Cure a disease | 20 | 60 | -- |
| Eradicate a disease | 5 | 10 | 0 |
| Cities disease free | 1 | 34 | 14 |
| Disease cube supply | 0.5 | 34 | 15 |
| Survive an epidemic | 5 | 20 | 15 |
| Unleash an outbreak | -3 | -3 | -15 |
| Total | 155 | 129 |
Using this tournament scoring Team A would lose the game of Pandemic, but win the event having done a better job controlling the spread of the diseases.