Sailplane Contest Strategies & Tactics

I figured this forum would be a great spot to ask some of the advanced
contest pilots about their personel strategies & tactics they use to
win. I've watched a fine week of soaring, masters of the wave, read
Winning on the Wind, cross country soaring by reichman, New Soaring
Pilot and a couple other books. All had some great advice in it.

I've also watched alot of contests on SeeYou soaring software by
downloading the flights off the ssa server. I saw a few instances
where a well respected pilot started, had a group follow him, then
turned back went through the start gate again and let the group that
was following him lead him to a couple thermals before he blew past
them and he won the day.

Anyone want to chime in on some good contest strategies or tactics?