Pre season competition alliance

[Ian Curtis]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

People say that every year. And frankly, while it is much more common in the serpentine era, 50% of the time the #1 still wins at the regional level.

At the Championship level, the playing field has been considerably leveled and the #1 does have less success in the serpentine era. Whether that's because of the 3rd partner or purely because of 85 teams and 7 matches not yielding accurate rankings is a debate for another time.

Sean,

Do you know the percentages prior to the serpentine draft? IIRC someone on the GDC compiled it and it was astronomical but I don't know if I've ever actually seen any numbers.