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Re: "Random" match Schedules

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Originally Posted by MariaChristineK View Post
They call this kind of scheduling random?!? At Pittsburgh, we faced the same teams in almost the same alliances numerous times! It is much worse than past years...What is going on?
At 35 teams, Pittsburgh Regional is a small regional, and the new randomizing algorithm needs a certain number of teams to be effective. With a large regional, you have a much larger pool of teams to randomly draw from for generating the match schedules than a small regional, which is why Pittsburgh has many similar alliances.

Small number of teams at a regional = small pool of potential teams to compete in any match.
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