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Originally Posted by guju4life2005
my team has also noticed that a newer team (past 3-4 years) will often get paired together and face an alliance with three veteran teams (older than 3 years) this happened a lot at Boston, we were often paired up with newer teams (no offense we were all good) but still we were no match for the likes of 233, 121, 40, 126, etc...what i am trying to say is: sometimes it seems that alliances are really not random, and that sometimes they favor the vetran teams, however:
this sort of applied to us this year, where we were ranked 40 out of 45 at boston, but 121 and 233 recognized us for our defensive skills and we helped win the regional
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I disagree completely, I broke teams up into new and old (I used 1200 as the division.
We were paired with 8 teams over 1200 and 10 teams under 1200
We were against 14 teams over 1200 and 13 teams under 1200
I would say that based on the age of the teams this was pretty even.
We were with 233 and never against them, we were against 121 but never with them (until eliminations) 40 and 126 we were against each once and with each once. I would say that those numbers wok out pretty well. It seems to me that elimination matches are randomn they just include some parameters such as minimum amount of time between matches that make it less likly for some teams to get paired up. The only way to fix this is to run a round then take a break and run another round, this however would take longer and you would get less matches. Other wise It could be done by predictably rotating through teams so it would be more even.
I have never had a problem with elimination pairings, you win some you lose some, in the end there are enough matches so the best teams come out on top.