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Unread 05-01-2009, 20:41
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Re: My case against <G14>

I don't like the rule partially it will make seeding inaccurate (well, in some cases, it already is, but this could potentially make it worse). In essence what this is doing is giving a handicap to a future opponent if you outscore an opponent by given multiples. This makes little sense in a seeding standpoint (given that handicaps will usually mess with those anyways), and unless this disadvantage is taken into account in seeding, the "ladder" will be almost pointless to look at other than to determine who picks alliances for elimination matches.

Also, if you go by the team-by-team basis, if there is a 3x score in eliminations rounds, there won't be much left. While I can see that it is attempting to make the matches "even," I think that it fails at doing so by making the erroneous assumption that the future opponents are of the same caliber as the past opponents (unless of course, they happen to be the same). In a competitive view, it also makes little sense as it will not necessarily let the best team win, although it doesn't seem likely in eliminations that a team would score 3x then lose twice in a row since they'd have their cells back on the third match
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