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Unread 09-04-2013, 13:27
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Re: Picking from top 8 seeds

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Originally Posted by BigJ View Post
I don't want to get into the implications of purposely manipulating match results to become the "best team outside of top 8".

With regards to the 2nd sentence, one would assume the "best 24 teams" still play, therefore it would be the same teams either way, just in different configurations.
I would argue that it is not really the "best 24 teams" but the robots that create the best 8 alliances.
The best robots don't always make the best alliance partners.
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