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Originally Posted by wolfj
Of course its not random. My team played in the 9th match of every group of 10 for the entire qualifier. They have to change it soon.
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Sounds like there is still a lot of emphasis on time between matches, but improvements have been made. As I understand how any program that sets the matches will work, if you limit the time between matches to 8-12 rounds (for a field of 60), then you will be "randomly" matched with no more than 30 different teams and probably less. It probably is not practical to have a 5 round spread for smaller fields, so the number of "random" teams will decrease dramatically on small fields. I recall being frustrated at a small field regional a couple years ago, because we faced or teamed with the same team many times and did not play quite a few of the other teams. Anyway, the matches seem more mixed when the opponents are allowed to shuffle. The perpetual opponent algorithm makes an imperfect system worse, in my opinion, so I hope the event staffs are using the other option.
Let's try to have some fun out there
