[Jonathan Norris]

Yes, many teams who do not have great scouting make picking decisions based off a teams history or their relationship with that team. Its happened to us, last year at GTR we played both our morning matches on Saturday with 1334. In the first match we played well together and with bot of us scoring it was an easy win, then in our second match our arm broke seconds before the match started, so we played defense against 188 and kept them to one tube while we let 1334 score and win the match for us. 1334 ended up with the second or third seed (after 2056 picked 1114), and even though we were a good scoring bot I wouldn't have picked us with the second pick (probably 854). So yes teams that are better known or have a good working relationship with the picking team can have alot to do with selections.