User blog comment:CaliforniaKingsnake/Who should have gotten the Seventh Wars 15th seeding, and how would it affect the Wars?/@comment-35435623-20161121005220

Wow, well this is fun - I typed out a long response only to have a notification and deletion of my comment because there was risk of my session being hijacked or something. Nevertheless, I'll type it out again.

The Seventh Wars may be my favourite series, but the seeding was a massive frustration, and I'm not just talking about Ming Dienasty, because I wouldn't have seeded Thermidor 2 or Behemoth either, and instead would have seeded all three of the Series 6 Heat Finalists mentioned in your post. It was such a shame that literally all of Vader, Barber-Ous, Shredder, Supernova, Disc-O-Inferno and Hydra crashed out in the first round. Sure, Vader, Barber-Ous and Shredder had their issues, but it was painful seeing the others so brutally disposed of by the other best robot in their melees just because they noticed them as a significant threat.

Simply put, in the present day of The Seventh Wars, the three Series 6 Heat-Finalists mentioned were all strong robots that put in strong performances, and the experienced seeds did not deserve their seeding purely because of experience. As much as I enjoyed seeing Thermidor 2 back in the Semi-Finals, it simply strolled through its heat while not actually finishing off a robot properly, while Behemoth and Ming Dienasty failed to reach a Heat Final. If you put Disc-O-Inferno, Supernova and Hydra in all of their places, then the quality of the heat improves, the brutality of the heat improves and the entertainment of the heat improves - all significantly. The ultimate incompetence in terms of not rewarding the better fighter with a seeding and instead giving it to the better name also gives people ammunition when they say that Series 7 lacks depth in quality with the lack of All-Stars. No, it doesn't, it's just that some heats became too open or that bit too easy for the past-its-best seed because the producers didn't actually give the strong Series 6 Heat Finalists the headline role in a heat that they all deserved.

As for Ming Dienasty alone though, if the main weight behind its seeding was being an experienced robot that was also well-known as a team, then I'm surprised the producers just didn't play it safe and pick Kat 3 - a robot that had a notable, barely changed design, had a fun, noticeable team, and was competitive enough both in the past and present. Sure, I personally still wouldn't have seeded it because it would've been another leading act in a heat that wasn't explosive enough or good enough to actually carry a heat, but it would have been a much safer choice than Ming Dienasty, that's for sure.

This was a fun read anyhow - I hope to see you write more!