Serpentine Draft

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Originally Posted by Damiaen_Florian

I think that as the fields of play get deeper, meaning more high level teams, the 1st seed will be much more likely to win, simply because the 3rd robot picked by the 1st seed will be closer to the skill level of the 3rd robot picked by the 8th seed. Wait until district championships and world championships and I think you'll again see the higher seeds winning as often as they normally do.

I've always seen it the opposite way. At a district or regional, the top tier of robots is usually about 2-4 robots, which usually end up on the top 1-3 alliances. In a championship division, that top tier is something like 20 teams or so. As a result, the pool of teams to pick from is much deeper, and the difference between the alliances is much smaller. So a 5 seed making Einstein(1241, 610, 1477 in 2013), is not very surprising.