[Jon Stratis]

The difference you see in events really had to do with the relative strength of each event. If you have several top teams who all score about the same, you'll see them swapping locations throughout the event. However, I'd there's a clear drop off, then things well become more stable. The variability you see at North Star among everyone outside of the top 10 really has to do with how lopsided things were with a couple of teams. If you had a match with Wave or the ERRORS, you jumped up a bunch of spots, then started sliding back down towards where you were. I saw one team jump something like 40 spots due to one match (their 9th or 10th, I think). If you were unfortunate enough not to have any matches with them, you never got that boost. Graphing it out like this lets you actually see which teams benefited from the random pairing, which is pretty cool.