The top 8 teams will be....(2004)

[The Lucas]

I think 4%-6% of the teams at any regional or nationals division will stay undefeated. This means that a regional with 50 teams will have 2-3 undefeated teams, while a nat division with 80 teams will have 3-5. Also, at smaller regionals it will tend towards the 4% and at larger events it will tend toward 6% due to the lower number of matches. The rest of the 8 will be one-loss teams with maybe a 2-loss team sneaking in.

I think this year there will be a larger deviation in winning percentages, because the dominant teams will win at all costs rather than keeping the score high and risking a loss, like last year (remember collusion?). In fact, I believe it will be common place for the one-loss teams to have higher Ranking Scores than undefeated teams. This will happen because strong teams that lose a match early in the tournament will desperately try to inflate their Ranking Score, while undefeated teams will adopt a Lombardi philosophy:

"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing."

[Crop-Circles]

I think this depends on when the regoinal is played. The first regoinals, everyone is still figuring out how to play the game. There will be much more luck involved, so I would expect to only see one or two, if any, undefeated teams. However, at the later regoinals and at nats, teams will have figured out the best way to play the game. The luck will be replaced with strategy, and whoever has the better strategy will win. So these competitions may have 4-8 undefeated teams.

[Joe Ross]

Well, data from two regionals this week.

2 teams were undefeated at Annapolis
the top teams at UTC had 2 losses each, and the 8th seed had 3 losses
1 team was undefeated at NJ

Anyone know for any other regionals?

[MisterX]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

Well, data from two regionals this week.

2 teams were undefeated at Annapolis
the top teams at UTC had 2 losses each, and the 8th seed had 3 losses
1 team was undefeated at NJ

Anyone know for any other regionals?

I was pretty impressed by this at UTC with everybody saying how there would be undefeateds or 1 loss teams in the top 8, yet at UTC the top 3, each had 2 losses and from 4th to 13th teh treams were all 6-3 I guess it just goes to show what a tough regioanl UTC truly is

[Crop-Circles]

I don't remember the exact rankings from GLR, but we finished second with one tie. The team ahead of us was the only undefeated team at the regional.

[Team311]

At SBPLI the top seeded team was 9-1-0, 2 was 8-2-0 and so was 3 and 4

[henryBsick]

I have stopped trying to guess this. As a driver, all i try to do is go undefeated. That is my only mindset. If you are the only team with an undefeated reckord you are number 1 regardless of qp's. The number of teamsn that go undefeated is impossible to tell with 100% accuracy. Variables include whn the regional is played, who is at the regional, the stategy involved, and many others. Some places have undefeated, some don't. Just shoot for the top. I don't know the # but you guys can keep guessing. Try to speculate for Philly we(222) will be there next.
See ya then!!

[Gabe Salas Jr.]

At UCF, the top 8 qualifying seeded teams before alliance selections were with the following stats:

Wins-Losses-Ties

1) 10-0-0
2) 9-1-0
3) 8-1-1
4) 8-2-0
5) 7-2-1
6) 7-3-0
7) 7-3-0
8) 7-3-0

*data collected from http://www.soap108.com/2004/events/fl/seeding.cfm

At Pacific NW Regional:

In ranking order:
No undefeated
1. 492 - 1 Loss
2. 1359 - 1 loss
3. 360 - 1 DQ, 1 tie
4. 948 - 2 losses

Well, I stopped looking after my team