Undefeated Teams at Regional Events

[EricH]

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

Technically, a team could go undefeated in qualifications and not make eliminations. Winning every match 1-0 would result in seeding very low.

Depends on the event.
1 point from your penalized score + 5 points for winning = 6 points/match

Randomly grabbing a few regionals:

Utah (10 matches), 22nd
North Carolina, (9 matches), 43rd
WPI (12 matches), 22nd
L.A. (10 matches), 56th

At Utah or WPI, you'd seed pretty well--well enough to be noticed, quite probably, and almost certainly a backup. At NC or L.A., you'd be pretty much out.

But if a team is consistently winning 1-0, you'd suspect that they 1) had the easiest schedule in the world and 2) might be fixing matches. In all practicality, if your best win is 1-0, the next halfway decent team to come along is going to kick your butt pretty hard, making you a 1-loss team.

Technicality versus practicality...