[Taylor]

Week 1 quals, penalties were the deciding factor in matches. Period.
Unfortunately, many teams simply did not understand the ranking system until it was too late.
One problem the current system has is the following: that fancy TBA image in our signatures lists W-L-T statistics. When we go back to our schools, our faculty/staff/students ask how we did. I'm struggling to explain the concept of, "well, we lost more than we won, but our seeding scores were great!" (which they weren't but you see my point).
Jury is still out in my mind, we'll see in later weeks how things flush out. In my eyes, the #1 and 2 seeds at DC (1727 and 3123) were certainly deserving, irrespective of how they were awarded.