[Pat Fairbank]

As the scorekeeper for the Waterloo Regional, I was pretty happy with the scheduling algorithm considering what a small event it was (30 teams). The seedings at the end of the qualification round really seemed to reflect team quality well.

One thing that I noticed - not sure if it's a negative or not - is that the algorithm seems to optimize the number of other teams each team is paired with, possibly at the expense of optimizing the number of opponent teams. For example, at Waterloo, where each team played 11 qualification matches, each team had 22 different alliance partners (the maximum possible), while having a number of opponents ranging between 20 and 25. So no team was paired together with the same team twice, while having a repeated opponent anywhere between 8 and 13 times.