To begin the Monthly Topic Challenge #3: Pencil and Paper Games :
A easy query (not essentially with a easy reply)

3 fanatic dots-and-boxes gamers come collectively.
Of course nobody desires to attend whereas the others play, and nobody likes king making.
So they determine on a workforce match: 2 versus 1
To compensate their numerical drawback, the only participant workforce will get 2 benefits:

• They solely want one of many containers to win.
• They can set the participant order

Warm-up query:
Assuming excellent play, will the only participant workforce win on a 3*3 space?

Real query:
Assuming excellent play, will the only participant workforce win on a 5*5 space?

Since wikipedia mentions variants: They begin with an empty board. For the foundations see e.g https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dots_and_Boxes