[lenergyrlah]

I just ran a lot of statistics from the VCU Regional. There were 66 teams.

The oldest third & newest third were against the same team each round. The pairings were done in numerical order. Example: 116 vs. 122 every match, 339 vs. 343 every match, 345 vs. 346 every match.

Each team in the middle third alternated rounds against the team right above them and the team right below them (in numerical order). So team 928 alternated rounds between teams 900 and 975. Since team 620 was the oldest team in the middle third & team 1522 was the newest team in the middle third they alternated against each other. So team 620 alternated between 623 & 1522, and team 1522 alternated between 620 & 1413.

The only thing "random" was which pairs were matched against which, keeping in mind that the 3 pools were completely separate.

Team 1731 was matched against 1655, & in each match every team in our alliance was newer than their opposing team (i.e. 346, 928, & 1731 vs. 345, 900, 1655). If FIRST honestly thinks that the lower the team # the better the robot then we should have lost every single match. How is this fair?