Thread: Championship Event - Where the "Random" Match Sorting Really "Shines"
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Re: Championship Event - Where the "Random" Match Sorting Really "Shines"
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Originally Posted by Budda648 View Post
I saw a lot of teams get bitten by the "random" algorithm monster again. This hurt a lot of great teams dearly... some super-great teams were waaay overlooked. Some teams weren't even given a chance to impress because they had partners that couldn't compliment each other... but that's how the game's played.

For the record, team 648 played against team 16 three times. Of 86 teams, what are the chances? I don't know the stats like that for other teams, but I'm going to assume we weren't the only ones that that happened to.
yes 540 got bitten really hard at championship and regionals when they had to go against 539 every single match.
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