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Originally Posted by gblake
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I wonder if FIRST will ever become so tired of the complaining that they decide to test drive using well-known, precomputed schedules containing placeholder team IDs (before any/all tournament(s) folks can go over the well-known schedules with a fine toothed comb as many times as they like until they are groomed into perfect "fairness"  ), and then simply replace the placeholders with actual teams IDs at the start of each/any tournament.
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That's a great idea ... until a team doesn't show up.
I don't think I've been to an event - regional or offseason - in which 100% of the teams that were on the list the week before actually made it to the arena and competed every match, every day. When there are 41 teams participating instead of the expected 42, the pre-drawn match structure goes out the window.
[edit] Are you proposing that there are match schedules drawn up for every number of competing teams, from 24-104, these schedules are on hand before every event, then are printed on the morning of the tourney? If that's the case, then I Emily Litella-ed it. [/edit]