frankly speaking, some people work better with their friends in
their own team, and is a good chance for friends to build rapport
with one another. such a policy of random matching will not result
in random chances of winning since preassigned groups each have
different strengths and weaknesses… and worse still, bus fans who
are bringing their own non-enthusiast friends to have a taste of
the race for the first time will now be discouraged from joining
because they don’t know who the others are and would not join the
race on their own anyway.
In my opinion, if the participants are grouped randomly, it'll
be a more fair game to all. Because not everyone know everyone
here, what if person A don't know B, B also don't know C, but D E F
are good friends, I don't think it's fair. I agree that some of
them work better with their own group of friends, what about the
rest who joined individually? They might not be motivated to play
the game and may have the kind of "sure lose" mentality then they
won't really try hard to achieve their best. I agree that knowing
people is important, but most importantly in a game, must be
fair.
Would you rather:
A) I don't know this person at all, aiya, nvm, I'll try my
best to lead them, if they're weak on anything, because every group
has someone they don't know.
B) I don't know this person at all, but the group sitting next
to me is chatting happily. Why didn't I get to know more people
before I join the race? I don't have common topic to chat with my
group, how?
Situation A = fairness, there won't be any group worrying about
how to communicate.
Situation B = unfair treatment, some groups worry, some groups
enjoy.
