[EricH]

Originally Posted by plnyyanks

That's way before my time, and I've never heard of it; can you elaborate?

Someone apparently thought that lower team number = better robot. Result:

All teams at an event were placed in one of three brackets, by number. (This wasn't too hard to figure out by Week 3, BTW.)
Each "random" alliance was composed of one team from each bracket.
Add in the normal turnaround time and a deemphasized "not too many times with/against each team" factors, particularly at a small event.

Result: You guys (1124) would NEVER be with 1114 in a match*, but would probably get pretty badly beaten by them in 3-4 matches. 330, on the other hand, might be with them in 2-3 and against them in 1-2. Guess who seeds higher, regardless of who has the better robot?

It was so bad that corrections had to be applied mid-season because of such cases as mentioned above, and then it did a better job but not the best. It has never returned.

*Unless you happened to be on the other side of the dividing line from them... probably not.