[EricH]

Originally Posted by M. Lillis

Kind of off topic, but still in line with the discussion: why wouldn't they adopt an IRI style draft for elims at CMP? It would make it way more competitive if the draft order was 1-8, 1-8, 8-1, 1-8. The 8th seeded alliance would still have a shot, seeing as so many good teams don't make elims.

Because it already WAS 1-8, 1-8 (no picked 4th team), and blowouts were common in QFs. Trust me. If they liked it as that, they wouldn't have changed it. "Still have a shot" as in "you still have a shot at having a world high score set against you"...

The year after they made the change, you guys benefitted by being able to be part of a very good #8 alliance, and take it all the way to a World Championship. I don't think that would have been the case two years prior, even with the same game and same robots.