New vs old schedule advantages

[Daniel_LaFleur]

Originally Posted by Alex Cormier

Perfect example, why the answer is no.

http://www2.usfirst.org/2010comp/eve...edulequal.html

Check out 1114's schedule. 4 times they had basically back to back matches.

Time......Match #...................Teams
10:05 AM 5 1114 3190 2505 3161 2702 1334
10:31 AM 9 1565 1334 2185 1114 781 2702
10:43 AM 11 296 1503 1334 1000 1114 772
11:25 AM 17 771 3190 1535 1114 296 854
1:34 PM 25 3396 3161 1246 1310 2185 1114
1:50 PM 27 1565 1219 1114 843 1310 2625
2:46 PM 34 781 3396 2505 1075 1114 1535
3:02 PM 36 2361 1114 1246 772 771 2505
9:54 AM 44 610 2056 854 3161 1114 1503
10:10 AM 46 1334 1114 3396 1503 2056 2361
10:50 AM 51 771 1114 2056 1075 2609 843

With only 30 teams at Waterloo, and 6 teams on the field, and not wanting to play with and against the same teams every match, you will get schedules like this ... especially if you want 10+ matches in qual rounds.

Also, I don't think it hurt them too much as they seeded 2nd. Teams like 1114 usually take this as 'just another challange'