Hits, Misses, & Suggestions -- long message

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Posted by Joe Johnson.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.

Posted on 8/17/2000 6:21 PM MST


In Reply to: Re: Hits & Misses posted by Mike Kulibaba on 8/17/2000 5:51 PM MST:



I maintain that, if anything, regionalizing the Nationals will make luck less of a factor.

There are tons of lucky or unluck events that happen to teams all throughout the season up to and including at the Nationals.

This lotto system helps to bring the luck factor out at the beginning (rather than hiding it all throughout the seeding round parters & opponents). It also makes randomness an obvious part of the game.

One more thing, I propose that FIRST should put all regional winners into one hopper, all regional runners up into another hopper, all regional semifinalists into yet another, all regional quarter finalists into one more and then all the remaining into the last. Then, each hopper would be drawn starting with the reginal non-finalists and progressing up to the regional winners.

This has two benefits. #1 it helps to increase the probability of evenly balanced groups. #2 it will increase the drama of fhe drawing because the teams that most folks want or dread to have in their groups will be likely to be the later drawn teams (For example, you may hear 1/4 of the crowd yell, 'Darn! First we get hit with WildStang and now we've C.H.A.O.S. will be hitting us too!' While 3/4 of the crowd might breath a sigh of relief, thinking 'Hurrah! With both WildStang & C.H.A.O.S. out of the way, we have a real shot at being group champion. From there, anything can happen!'))

The more I think about this regionalization, the more I like the idea.

Any other thoughts?

Joe J.