Quote:
Originally Posted by ALIBI
At West Michigan I saw for the first time ever, at least for me, a strange patern. None of the actual 1st picks came from within the top eight seeds (one team did decline). Absolute quality teams that know how to win were way down in seeding due to what I believe was effective deffense during their qualifying matches.
|
There was a similar pattern at GLR. In Detroit, a smaller regional, several alliances picks were made from within the top 8.
Beside the defense factor, the whole match scheduling algorithm skews the results. The fewer teams there are at a regional, resulting in more qualifying matches, the less effect the algorithm has. The Championships are like 4 huge regionals. You will see quality teams picked from the 9th through (approx) 30th positions of the rankings, some as the first picks.
They are "Human Dream and Inspiration Enablement Devices" but since that takes too long to say and explain I use the word "robot". - Foster [more] 
08-04-2007, 07:06
Similar Threads
(since 2004)
Threaded Mode