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Re: Picking from top 8 seeds
OCCRA does this (with the top 6 teams).
There was a case this past year where a team in the top 6 (I think they were 4th) attempted to throw their last qualification match to drop below 6th (they would have if they lost the match). They were playing against the team in 2nd. The team in 2nd knew the team in 4th would attempt to score for them, which would put them low enough to be picked by #1 (which #2 did not want to happen), so the 2nd ranked team then scored for the 4th ranked teams alliance in that match (so both teams were scoring for the opposing alliance). It was one of the strangest matches (and most confused audience and spectators/fans) I have ever seen in OCCRA. The fans of both teams were shouting that they were scoring for the wrong alliance, and everyone was confused (but it made sense to ~10 total people).
The resulting chaos and playing the seeding system would be worse than the 2010 week 1 6v0.
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