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Originally Posted by waialua359

In general, I think many great teams this year will seed high based on the current ranking system with a much better chance of reaching Einstein.
No, one bad match, can affect the standings like in other years where record mattered first. Good teams have a better chance of capturing with random partners than bad ones. I'm going to assume at Champs that the breaching ranking point is a given for almost all matches.

Yeah I agree. One bad match can't really affect the standings like in years past. (for example 2014, if you lost a match you lost 2 ranking points so that was a bummer and yes, if you lose a match this year you lose 2 ranking points as well, but you have the possibility of making that up with breach/capture ranking points) The capture rate will be high at champs. Good teams will not have as much as trouble ranking high because essentially many great teams can contribute to the majority of the capture by themselves- even if they get paired up with some bad partners they might still capture as long as their partners can move onto the batter. Champs will be interesting.

Agreed, the breaching point should be a guarantee almost every match at champs.