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Originally Posted by Alexa Stott
The higher seed is always the red alliance. It's not a statistical anomaly; it's a side effect of the way the alliance colours are assigned in elims. Basically all that statistic is is that the higher seed won 5/6 times.
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Didn't know that. I don't see this in the tournament rules. Is this just a tradition? I would think they'd give the top seed their choice of colors.
Has there ever been a case where there was a side of field bias at a tournament? It's possible that some subtle environmental factor like lightning, air currents (could affect tube throwing this year), crowd noise or maybe a undetected field difference could give a side of field advantage.
In most other sports the teams switch sides for half of the game.