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Originally Posted by dtengineering
What I DID notice this year, however, is that the correlation between robot performance and ranking was lower than in other years. In other words, there was more "luck" involved in your placement after qualifying than in other years. (Note that I am NOT saying that a top placing was all luck... nor that in other years luck has not been involved... just that this year luck, or random draw, was more important.)
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It's ironic that I, to a certain degree, noticed the exact opposite. While the specific order of the top 8 was not always correct, a majority of the better robots seeded highly at the regional events I paid attention to. The correlation decreased at Championship (especially in one division in particular), but that's to be expected with 87 teams and only 7 matches per.
Granted, they were not as ordered as Championship 2008, but that's because 2008's game was particularly isolated in terms of the performance of single robots. Not that 2008 was perfect in any regard, but at Championship it seeded very well.