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Unread 07-03-2010, 19:46
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Re: Do you like the seeding system?

As of right now I'm going to say no. I'll wait until after the Championship to vote for real though.

I don't like the seeding system because it's encouraging some teams to lose. When a team comes to me and asks wholeheartedly "Will you throw this match with us? We'll make out better in seeding points" I feel like something is wrong. While winning isn't the most important thing out there, Doing your best is. If a team can sandbag and be rewarded with a higher seed there's something wrong.

Personally, My Driveteam and I didn't concern ourselves with seeding points in NJ. We had no desire to seed, nor were will running well enough to attempt it.

I'm still looking forward to events further out though. Once teams are aware of how the system works and that both alliances should concern themselves with scoring and not playing defense in qualifications (I see this happening in week 4/5 Events and The Championship) the system may grow on me.

IMO, G14 (2009) is back, it's just transformed.
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