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Originally Posted by Bohalin
Hello All,
Just wanted to start a discussion and find out how other teams feel about being able to pick teams from the top 8 seed. ex. seed 1 picks seed 2, seed 2 picks seed 3, so on and so forth.
Now I know there exceptions and teams don't always do this.
In my own opinion, I feel that teams should only be able to pick from teams outside the top 8. I feel there is often super alliances of seed 1 and 2 at comps that I've attended. Again, there are always some exceptions where this isn't the case.
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The issue that stops this argument before it even gets off the ground is that the top 8 is rarely an accurate representation of the best 8 robots at the event. Thus, you'd be favoring the good teams with worse luck or schedules by giving them the privilege of being selected by the #1 seed.
This also creates a strange incentive for many teams to throw matches on Saturday morning. If you can't pick anyone in the top 8, and a team really wants to be picked by a top seed, they have an extremely strong incentive to just not try, or even actively sabotage, their last few matches.
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if they take away the option of picking top 8 seeds, you are creating a slightly more even playing field. You are also giving teams that usually don't get picked a chance to play in the finals.
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Actually, this wouldn't help at all. If everyone picked perfectly, then the only possible way worse teams would join the elimination rounds would be if they were an alliance captain. If teams were ranked in perfect order, then only the 24 best teams would play elims regardless of whether or not inter top 8 picking were allowed. I can write this all out if you'd like.