User blog comment:RWfan/Robot Wars Series 9/@comment-30095342-20111028160709

Yeah, I would be in favour of adding brackets to the seeds in the heats. I was looking at Heat C, and couldn't find the seeds unless I consulted the list. I think you should do it like this so we know whose's favoutites and whose's are dark horses. Example: Firestorm 5 [2], where the seed is in the square brackets. You could use ordinary brackets - well, any brackets you want.

Another thing about the seeds is the layout. Since you have 16 heats and 32 seeds, you have two options for lining up the seeds. Firstly, and personally my favourite, would be Series 4 style, eg: Heat A should have 1st and 17th, B should have 3rd and 19th, C should have 5th and 21st and so on until P's 2nd and 18th, so there is a gap of 16 between the seeds of any heat. The second option is S5 style, so 1st and 32nd, 3rd and 30th, 5th and 28th and so forth until 2nd and 31st. All that then needs to be done is work out the other six robots in each heat and Bob's your dinghy.