We had ranking problems at the Pittsburg Regional. It wasn't a problem with wins and losses, but rather a problem with the rankings in the alliance selection program. During the first round of alliance selection, teams picked among the top eight seeded teams. The selection program needed to fill the voids with new alliance captains. Unfortunately, the program did not pick the next highest seeded teams to fill the voids as it should have. They went through both rounds of the selection process without noticing this.
During lunch, they had to hold a second draft, starting with the new alliance captains in the seventh and eighth spots. Everything worked out ok, and I commend the FIRST officials for holding a second draft to fix the problem.
FIRST still has to iron out the bugs in its new software (which runs on Windows
). If you are in a potential picking position (ranks 9-15) make sure you know your ranking and the rankings of other potential pickers so you will notice a problem as it arises.