[Cuyir]

I agree that the system worked fairly well, though I would have preferred a bigger bonus be given to the losing teams in the closer games.

One other thing I didn't really like was that it is basically pointless to play defense, especially if you know you're going to lose the game. This makes it nearly impossible for defensive bots to gain a high seed unless they switch to playing offense. Take 294 - they were #1 seed in Newton division, but I believe they told us they prefered to play more defensively from the far zone. They had to use a completely different strategy to gain that seeding spot than one they wanted to use in the elimination rounds. This problem was worse for weaker bots: they could play defensive and hope they were noticed by the scouters on a high seeded team or switch to offense and hope they could get some seeding points.