Week 1 Stats

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by Alexa Stott

The higher seed is always the red alliance. It's not a statistical anomaly; it's a side effect of the way the alliance colours are assigned in elims. Basically all that statistic is is that the higher seed won 5/6 times.

Not true. The red/blue designation in the next round is "inherited" by the winning of the previous round. So if the #8 seed upsets the #1 seed in the quarter, the #8 seed will be red in the semis against the 4/5 seed. Likewise, if the #3 seed happens to face the #7 seed in the semis, the #3 seed is still going to be blue.