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Originally Posted by Anupam Goli
On the other hand, I think it will be much faster-paced game. Its been 2.5 weeka since anyone has played, and the last time 1746 and 2415 played, they had to play on AstroTurf and survive brownouts. I'm expecting elims to be competitive and blow out the other 3 events in terms of excitement.
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Indeed. Albany and Dalton both had some talent, but a lot ended up split between two events. Additionally, with only 25 and 28 teams at each event, it was more difficult to have a "deep" field. I haven't looked at concrete metrics of OPRs or other such things, but with the combination of it being the second event for many people and having the largest collection of teams since week 2 astroturf, I feel like (and hope) we'll see some more high scoring results.
Lastly, with the large gap between events, many teams will have had good opportunities to iterate (something I imagine was much more difficult for teams who were in their second event week 3.)