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If teams are expected to be able to program an autonomous mode for a robot that was built in 6 weeks, then it should be fair to expect that a program could be written to help alleviate our concerns with these "non-random" pairings. Most teams do not want purely random pairings. They simply want an "IF" statement that checks to see if teams have already played previously in the same match.
While I understand that constraints like time between matches exist, there are some ways around this. All teams break for lunch on Friday as well as the break between Friday night and qualifying rounds Saturday morning. Could there be 3 groupings of teams (Fri AM, Fri PM and Sat PM) where the programs assigns matches based on the groups? This would allow time between matches, but also "shuffle the deck" so to speak?
I know that we were frustrated seeing the same teams directly before our matches or in our matches at GLR.
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