So................
How has the new alliance pairing algorithm treated you so far this season?
I still notice some repetition - are regional staffers correctly parameterizing the algorithm to yield optimal results?
http://www.thebluealliance.net/tbatv/team.php?team=48
Personally, I'm rather agitated and puzzled by the fact that 48 has been stuck in Qualification Match #1 at 3 different regionals, regardless of whether we are the lowest numbered team there or not. At Midwest, 33 didn't even play til Match #5, so it's not like all the lowest-numbered teams are stuck in Matches 1-3.
One begins to wonder if this rather annoying fate is intentionally being forced upon us, given the supposedly random nature of this year's algorithm over last year's...... It's a running joke with us to predict, accurately, that we're in Match #1 at every event we attend, and find out later that we are correct.
After last year, where the Algorithm of Death pretty much forced us to be in one of the first three queued matches, it's GETTING OLD. I'd prefer not to be queued up as soon as we get to the venue on Friday, just for ONE TIME. Is that too much to ask? Perhaps in Atlanta we can have a bit of a break? Cuz, ya know, sometimes it's nice to be able to get a breath in and perform functional checks and such without having the event pit announcers breathing down our necks as soon as we walk in. K? thx, bai.