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Originally Posted by GaryV1188
There was a similar pattern at GLR. In Detroit, a smaller regional, several alliances picks were made from within the top 8.
Beside the defense factor, the whole match scheduling algorithm skews the results. The fewer teams there are at a regional, resulting in more qualifying matches, the less effect the algorithm has. The Championships are like 4 huge regionals. You will see quality teams picked from the 9th through (approx) 30th positions of the rankings, some as the first picks.
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I would agree that with a smaller regional the algorithm would mess up what FIRST is trying to do with match pairings and that you would see 1st round picks from wihin the top eight seeded teams. West Michigan had 54 teams, I would call that a medium regional and the Championship will have 86 teams per field, I would call that a very large regional.
The point that I was trying to make was that the number 1, number 2, number 3..... seeds did not think that thier best alliance partner could be found in the top eight seeded teams. At West Michigan there were several picks for the teams seeded in the bottom third. Every other time I have ever seen alliances picks, 1 would pic 2, 3 the new 2 would pick 4 the new 3 (sample of oberved picks only). That is, you would usually see at least three or four teams in the top eight join other teams in the top eight. The top eight would pick from within themselves and need to call up the 9th, 10th, 11th etc. seeded teams to become alliance captains. That did not happen at West Michigan. There was no suffling of the top eight seeded teams.