paper: Alliance Seeds and Results

[themccannman]

Originally Posted by MARS_James

I am really interested in getting everyone's opinions on this, I always figured the serpentine draft helped to equal out the playing field but from this it looks like it is not the case(at least for this year would love to see this done for previous years). This is especially true since of the two 8th seeds to make it to finals at a competition one was the Orlando 8th seed alliance (which I was a part of) who would have been eliminated.

Is it time for a change of draft structure? If so how could we improve it?

It's not supposed to make the alliances even, it's supposed to make them more even than if the first alliance got 2 picks in a row. If we wanted it to be truly even their would be no incentive to seed higher because it wouldn't increase your chances of winning, suddenly everyone is sandbagging and throwing matches because it doesn't matter if you win.

Serpentine draft is good, there's a reason most other competitive sports use it.