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Originally Posted by Bill Moore
FIRST missed the mark if they truly intend to make alliances level.
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In my opinion, this year the selection process was much more sucessful at leveling the playing field. You can go through all the theory you want about how possible it is that the first seeded alliance will still destroy all the others, but numbers don't lie. Although I don't have the exact statistics, at both of the regionals our team attended the first seeded alliance did not win the regional. In fact, in
both of the regionals, the 8th seeded alliance was able to defeat them, something I had never seen before! Now, there is the argument that this process has made it too easy for the lower seeded alliances, but that isn't the issue being discussed. From what I have seen, this has done a great job of making the matches more fair and exciting than in previous years.