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Originally Posted by EricH
Sorry, Adam, but you're not adding anything new. If you have new information that you didn't ALREADY state (and which I was responding to). The discussion I remember applied the term "Algorithm of Doom" to the 3-group qual setup system, partly because if you were in the same group as [insert powerhouse] you would never be with them, and probably be against them 3 or 4 times. It wasn't fixed. IIRC, there was some modification AFTER a few weeks that was a slight improvement, but not enough to make much difference.
You may be thinking of 2010, where there was a change to the seeding structure after Week 1 produced a number of 6v0 matches.
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Week 1 of 2007 the doom scheduler had you play with/against the team above or below you in team number every match.
Later in season, Champs for sure, teams were clearly lumped into 3 groups (in order of team number) with each qual alliance having a team from each group. Punishing low number teams that were not elite, and favoring high number teams that were elite.