Thread: The Rest Of The Best
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Unread 02-04-2012, 02:48
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Re: The Rest Of The Best
While I agree that there are often many very good teams with very good robots that miss out on champs, I disagree with your method of solving the problem at hand. I would cite this year and 2010 as prime examples, in that those years more than any other the seeding algorithm has allowed for relatively mediocre teams to seed highly. It can not simply be resolved by saying the top four seeded teams go because that does not inherently prove they are the four best teams at that event. The process of seeding is too flawed to say that definitively.
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