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Originally Posted by Joel J.
I think this is the year the divisions seen as favorites will come out on top. There are alot of quality scoring robots at the championship event this year (especially in Galileo), and this is unlike previous years. For example, last year Newton was the popular division, because it had the hardest field, but when you look at the actual teams in Newton that were of stellar quality, you could really only make a list of 6-8. That is, a small number of teams carried the division. This year Galileo has a massive amount of quality teams present, and of course Curie has 1114+330 (and others as well). All it takes this year is for the correct team to seed 1st, and then to execute properly.
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It's going to be harder than ever for the top teams to seed first, though.
Not only are there not enough qualifying matches to weed out the teams that get lucky with partners, and don't play anyone tough, but now the match scheduling algorithm is going to make it easier for high numbered teams to seed and harder for low numbered teams.
If I were 2056 I'd be pretty happy right now. They have a very very good chance at seeding first in galileo.
1114's got a better shot than 330, but all it takes is one team coming out of nowhere to seed first and muck up all the pairings.
The last couple years when there's been a division that seemed to be the odds on favorite to win, they havent.
Archimedes in 05--most of the top teams didnt seed. Everyone got split up. A division considered weak by most (Newton) won.
Newton in 06- The top teams got split again. Everyone thought that outside of 233 and 217 Archimedes was weak, as well.
In 2004, however, Archimedes did have a lot of very good teams, and they did win the event.