[Knippschild]

I was a scorekeeper for the Philadelphia Regional. I was present when the match schedule was generated (by the lead scorekeeper).

The FMS (the event management software) uses a very complicated algorithm to generate a completely RANDOM schedule. When FMS calculates who should be paired with whom, and who should be pitted against whom, it has no knowledge of the team's "big name"ship nor of that team's standings at other regionals.

The match parings take about 3-5 minutes to generate. Last year's algorithm only took seconds to generate... this one is definitely a lot more random by definition.

Also, once a match is generated, it is impossible for a human to edit the schedule and rearrange the pairings to fit some sort of side agenda.

I assure you, the Philadelphia Regional's schedule was generated once, and that was the official schedule used for the qualifying rounds.