[BrianR]

I went through the qualification matches for data mining, and I noticed a couple of things. Unfortunately, I modified the document, and I didn't preserve the Red vs Blue scores, rather they are now Winner and Loser. In any case, when I did a quick sum of the Red scores vs. the Blue scores over the first four regionals (BAE wasn't posted), I noticed that Red had overall anywhere from slightly more to double as many points as Blue. This sure seems like a red advantage to me. The one regional where it was very clear was at VCU where Red literally demolished Blue.

Also, the other point that I found VERY interesting was that the number of teams that scored over 30 points and lost was very low. In fact, 98.515% of all losing teams had fewer than 30 points. This would seem to indicate that anyone who can score over 30 points (a 12" ramp) every match, should be well on their way to finals, if not one of the top seeds.

What do you think?

Oh yeah, this data constitutes 270 qualification matches, and none of the finals matches, as those are clearly a different caliber, and need to treated as a seperate type of match so as to prevent skewing the data.