[Bongle]

Wow, I came into this thread expecting similar gripes of "ooo, our (n+1)th match had somewhat similar robots as our nth match" as there was last year, but this is horrible if teams are really getting 60%+ matches against the same teams.

In past years it was always kinda like

match 1: paired with team x
match 2: playing against team x
match 3: playing after a match that had team x

Teams would kind of 'fade in' to your matches over the course of the day, then 'fade out'.

The worst part is that this isn't even something that could possibly be called an unforeseen bug, since you can always just generate test regionals with dummy teams and see if the results are sane.

I suppose one upside is that if everyone is playing their own little sub-regional with the same subset of the robots AT that regional, then finals will more closely resemble finals at the championship: you'll be playing against robots you've never played against before, and scouting is that much more important.