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Re: 2007 or 2008 match pairing algorithm?

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Originally Posted by waialua359 View Post
Not sure about the match scheduling for the different regionals or how they do it, but we clearly saw a change in how they did it from regional to regional.
Our Chesapeake one seems more like the 2007 one. We saw the same team in matches 4 times in a stretch of 5 matches in a field of 61 robots. How can that be?
Last week at VCU, this never happened.
The match algorithm output varies a lot depending on what parameters (like minimum spacing between matches, etc.) are given to it.

Trying to force too high or too low of a value into the algorithm (such as in a small event setting a high minimum match spacing) will not yield optimal results. As long as the algorithm is given good parameters for the number of teams attending the event, you'll get a good match schedule.
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