[Racer26]

I definitely agree with everyone. Scorched earth as a strategy is an artifact of teams doing what is in their best interest given their current position at the time of alliance selections.

If the seeding system did a better job of sorting the best robots to the top by playing more matches, and/or using sort metrics that are solely (or at least mostly) based on robot performance (ie. no 2012 Coop Bridges, 2010 QS), then you won't see scorched earth play out as often, because the team doing the selecting will be better than the team(s) they've selected.

Karthik is totally correct. Ontario and the Districts have done a good job. 12 matches in 30-40 team events seems to do a pretty good job of sorting based on WLT record. Its much harder to pull that off at Championship, without a huge change in how Championship works. To me, the obvious choice to both increase the Championship's team capacity, AND give every team more matches, without dramatically increasing time required, or volunteers required, is to move the divisions to having 2 fields each.