On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Jason Carpio <jcar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Bob > the first 2 rds are all "tournament pod" games > so the regions won't match up with the site locations. The teams playing > will in some way represent the geographic region not necessarily their > bracket region.
Tournaments are seeded so that the best players or teams meet each other in the late rounds. This is deliberate - to get the best matches/games in front of large national/international audiences. Let's say you have a situation in the NCAA Tournament: the 4 best teams are all from northeastern colleges and the west is unnaturally weak, every western school gets creamed in its non-conference games, so the best schools are ranked relative only to other conference schools. In this case the best schools in the country play each other during the first days among all the other games going on. Eventually, when you get to Final Four weekend, the northeastern winner plays the western winner and the game comes out 106-30. It makes more sense for the tournament, for TV, and for everybody to spread the 4 best schools among the 4 regions. Tom -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
