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Re: Match Scheduling Algorithm Competition

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Originally Posted by Billfred View Post
then it could reduce the number of "oh-crap-we-play-against-Beatty-AND-Simbots-this-match?!" rounds
Take the other point of view and ask yourself how to minimize the "Hey, we're one of the top teams at this event and we get to play with a box on wheels and one that only spun in circles last match". True random is the only way that you can make fair schedules. The last time FIRST tried to introduce "smarts" into the system the worst schedules in history were seen (remember the low/mid/high system)...I hope they never try to do that again.

EDIT: Looks like Eric was thinking along the same lines as me.
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