2006 Championship Divisions

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Corey Balint

I really do hope they get creative this year and do some sort of randomization. Bracket teams together by years participating in FIRST, then assign an equal amount to each one of the four divisions. All random assignments though.
I really dont like that we are basically guaranteed to not participate against the likes of RUSH or BUZZ or 22 or 20.

Hey we'll never be in a division with 190., 192 or 195.
FIRST aint changing it for nuthin'. It aint broke so they aint fixin' it.

[Corey Balint]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

Hey we'll never be in a division with 190., 192 or 195.
FIRST aint changing it for nuthin'. It aint broke so they aint fixin' it.

It might not be broke, but it is very lame, and very dry.

[SizzelChest330]

I was hoping for a straight up Random drawling of divisions

Just completely randomly paired

[Corey Balint]

Id agree with you there, but you would get complaints saying that some divisions were walkovers, and some were impossible...basically, not enough parity.

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Corey Balint

Id agree with you there, but you would get complaints saying that some divisions were walkovers, and some were impossible...basically, not enough parity.

Archie is looking pretty nasty as of right now.

[Dan Petrovic]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

Archie is looking pretty nasty as of right now.

And Newton

[Rick TYler]

As long as you've left out 492, your list is wrong.

[Nuttyman54]

I just looked at the list of registered teams for the event. How do you check which division you're in? or did you just take them in numerical order and sort them?

[Ricky Q.]

Divisions aren't officially released till the week before Atlanta. But this sorting is the way that it has been done for the past couple years.

[George A.]

Yeah...in the revision archemedes is absolutely stacked...the original divisions were pretty even, but i'd give the toughest nod to newton...i hope they randomize it, but I know they won't

[GaryVoshol]

What if they randomize it within each block of 100 team numbers? Put teams 1-100 in a "box" and "draw" them out. Then do the same for 101-200, 201-300, etc. It could easily be computerized.

[Conor Ryan]

archmeides was stacked, the division championships would be tougher than Einstein.

What if it worked out like
A C G N
1 9 16 22
4 11 20 25
27 38 45 48
33 40 47 49
59 65 67 70
60 66 69 71
74 85 87 93
79 86 88 108
ect. ect.

Basically 2 teams go to Archimedes, then 2 to Curie, then 2 to Galileo and then 2 to Newton. This way you'd get to see some teams that are side by side without completely stacking the competition like Karthik. (notice how he had all the Niagra FIRST teams in the same division)

[Heretic121]

someone please tell me who its so hard to pull 1-4 out of a hat for each team and set a limit for x amount of teams per division??? how long would it take to write a VB or java program that did that??? an hour or two!?!?

GET UN LAZY FIRST!!! =D

* i mean hell ill make the app!!! *

[Rick TYler]

Originally Posted by Heretic121

someone please tell me who its so hard to pull 1-4 out of a hat for each team and set a limit for x amount of teams per division??? how long would it take to write a VB or java program that did that??? an hour or two!?!?

GET UN LAZY FIRST!!! =D

* i mean hell ill make the app!!! *

Ummm, why? What makes that better than the current method? No need to overcomplicate a simple problem -- and this method guarantees an even mix of older and younger teams in each division.

[Heretic121]

Originally Posted by Rick TYler

Ummm, why? What makes that better than the current method? No need to overcomplicate a simple problem -- and this method guarantees an even mix of older and younger teams in each division.

well so would the new way really *not over complicate things*... it would also allow teams 121 to face teams like 122 and 125 in nationals... and teams like 25 to face 27 and 33...

honestly its you make a program that says give # 1 2 3 4 --> XXX teams that are competeting in nationals an a b c or d in random order and once this many # of a's hits xx then stop giving out that letter... not hard... not random... and it would work for endless seasons to come since its randomly generated just like thier match lists... =D... easy...

so yes it would be meaningful and no it wouldnt over complicate things...

i think i answered everything =D