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Originally Posted by Kims Robot
or is this typical?
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Obviously varies by year but if my memory serves me well this year is much more weighted towards the top alliances winning versus the last 2 years of serpentine Alliance selection. My impression is last year was much more spread out and 2006 was somewhere in the middle. I would also say the seeding is better (top teams seed higher) this year without the algorithm and heavy defense interfering. 2 great robots can do a majority of the scoring this year (since there are only 2 trackballs) so a lower third partner pick doesn't matter as much this year. I am sure some numbers exist (maybe not for whole years) from the last few years.
I too look forward to seeing how the deeper field of hurdlers works and less qual matches (thus worse seeding) affects the number of upsets in the elims. The deeper field seemed to lead to more quarterfinal upsets at GLR. I still think the top teams will be favored quite a bit, but not as much as regionals.
Edit: Here is a
#1 seed thread from 2006 (many of the people who posted here posted there Kim, Sean & me). From 18 regionals, #1 Alliance won 9 (50%). I would guess that some the non-#1s were more spread out.