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Originally Posted by notmattlythgoe
How would you balance the numbers that go to each? You could end up with 600 of the teams that qualify being a #1 and only 200 being a #2. What do you do in that case?
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Agreed. If a "random" assignment is to be performed, it should be following qualification, not prior to competition. This would also allow team preference to be taken into account.
Strawman: At each cycle of qualification (e.g. weeks of regionals), the teams which qualify are given 24 hours to express a preference for one venue or the other. Those who do not express a preference are randomly assigned to keep the two events the same size. If too many teams express one or the other, all "no preference" teams go to the short event and teams will be randomly selected from those who selected the long event to go to the other.
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27-09-2015, 15:33
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