I'm a little surprised at how much of an uproar this is causing. I'm looking at the final standings for all the week 1 regionals, and the top bots are still at the top where they belong. In the cases where a non-elite robot makes it into the top 8: that happened with the wins/losses ranking format too.
Here are some numbers from week 1 results that some people might find interesting.
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Week 1 (Avg. Match pts) (Avg. Seed pts/match) (#1 Seed pts/match) (#8 Seed pts/match)
SDC 2.2 5.8 10.2 8.3
DC 1.9 5.0 8.3 6.1
GA 1.7 4.3 8.2 5.0
KC 2.6 6.6 12.4 8.9
NH 2.9 7.4 12.6 9.0
ROC 2.8 7.1 11.8 9.4
OR 2.6 6.3 11.4 8.2
NJ 2.8 6.8 14.3 8.4
GT 2.2 5.7 9.1 6.3
GG 3.1 7.7 15.3 9.8