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Re: Picking Teams in Elimination Rounds

One thing that stood out to me at NJ was:

No teams picked among the top 8 seeds!

This totally surprised me as this was very common last year. It seemed to me that it would have been advantageous for some of the top 8 to pick each other.

At first I thought that the new serpentine draft style prohibited it, but after rereading my rule book I knew that this wasn't the case. So why didn't they the top 8 select each other? Not that I am complaining about the results, because all the alliances were great (I don’t think there was a single bad pick). I am just curious.

As for the Serpentine Draft, there were not as many upsets as I predicted last year . I only counted one upset (#6: 223 522 75 over #3: 56 303 528) and that was really close (3 matches). Of course that is only one regional and no one was going to beat 25, they were just that good .

I am wondering how this will impact Pittsburgh, which has just 25 teams. The #1 alliance is going to have 2 robots to choose between 2nd pick. The choice may become easier if one of the robots is broken.
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