User blog comment:GravityMan/Sixth Official Wiki Rap Tournament/@comment-24328089-20170814221417/@comment-5412428-20170815003448

I absolutely stood behind the randomization before I actually saw it in practice in the Sixth Tourney, with some rappers being repeatedly hammered by statisically proven "good" rappers while other managed to float far because of randomnly given opponents who simply didn't have enough experience as them. It was definitely unfair to many individuals.

While liking somoene's rapping style could be a preference, it still is blatant generally if someone is simply more experienced than others. By selecting the match ups, everyone tends to have a fairer chance, and you avoid unnecessary sequels, beatdowns, and removal of rappers who deserve to have made it farther than others in the first Round. I find leaving it up to chance is even more unfair than having a group of users debate and decide and pit user against user based off of rapping ability. This creates a more entertaining and even match overall, instead of a one-sided battle where it is dreadfully obvious who won.

That being said, I am basing some match-ups off of requests and I am still randomizing a few users in this Tourney, primarily because I know for a fact that I don't know how a user measures up to the rest of them. The anonymous users and I are only chosing certain matches, primarily based off of either actual Wiki connection/beef, or simply because these users are quite similar in rapping ability and would complement each other well.

If anyone believes their match up was biassed agaisnt them, they can speak with me privately and I will inform them either how we chose their opponent, or if they were randomized.