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In my experience, GRT always accepts with "the burning passion of a thousand suns." Or something like that.

On a more serious note, only try to be funny if you really are funny. No one will get some weird inside joke. Even if you can't technically "graciously accept," it is still a polite way to accept an invitation to join an alliance.

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Since our robot will be a big D player at Central Valley, in the event we get picked:

"Team 256 is ready to RAM into our opponents"!

Nah. That was lame. :p But I'll think of something!

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I let audience laughter be the judge.

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"FIRST team xxxx gladly acceptes"

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Five years ago last month, Post#1 in this same thread:

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Poor form or not, it has become Team 341 tradition for a mentor who is getting married to have the invitations' response cards have two check boxes:

[ ] Graciously Accepts
[ ] Regretfully Declines

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I never understood "Regretfully declines" (unless your robot is broken). I mean, usually you're declining for strategy reasons; sure, you might regret it later, but right then?

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we regret making the picking team feel bad... it's like getting an invitation to a friend's party, but you can't attend because ur having ur own party (and u think ur party might be better).

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How cute! I wouldnt have thought of that!

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That is awesome.

3847's alliance captain decided to "invite teams on a magical journey of exploration and discovery" at Dallas-West. The MC remembered it for being different and used it in our award announcement as well.

Hopefully the revival of this thread will get more creative invites and acceptances. Alliance selection is boring with out them.

I also think the standard option should be "respectfully declines" and not "regretfully declines".

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Probably the funniest acceptance I have heard this year came from the representative from 217 at Detroit while accepting an invitation from 51. I believe the representative said something along the lines of "Team 217 is happy to be your wingman."

As long as accptances/declines are not mean or disrespectful I think teams should come up with their own creative way of accepting/declining. It makes alliance selections a little more interesting.

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This is a thread bump. A new thread was created asking a question, recently. The OP was told to do a search and the new thread was closed.

This thread explores the topic, has some good posts, and is rated 4 stars. It is a good read on the topic and is one of the only ones that I've found, if not the only one. When you do a search, other threads come up but this is the one devoted to the discussion.

It's perfectly fine to come up with a different response and a creative one. That is discussed in this thread that I've bumped. Enjoy the read.

Jane

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This thread is good too.

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We've noticed that too so our spokesperson will say "We accept your gracious invitation? :)

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We Governators came to the same conclusion about saying "We graciously accept" in an alliance selection. We translated it to "We accept your invitation. You're welcome." Needless to say we had quite a laugh about that. We decided that the best way (if not trying to stand out and be incredibly unique) would be something along the lines of "Team xxxx gratefully accepts your gracious invitation" with a few words changeable in there, for one because our rep found that to be a little too much of a tongue twister.