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10,000 Lakes Regional

1. 525, 967, 3642
2. 2705, 2169, 3765
3. 3082, 141, 3276
4. 2062, 2232, 2545
5. 2518, 1714, 3630
6. 2511, 93, 1806
7. 3883, 3018, 2450
8. 2957, 2052, 2498

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I hope so too... 2612 is a good team, making finals at Waterford this year and putting up a good fight in the QFs at Niles. Last year they were finalists at Cass Tech and MSC and were eliminated by 469 at every single event they attended.

Perhaps, since they already went to two districts, they wanted to give other teams a chance to get points for MSC... or maybe there was something wrong with their robot.

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Quoting myself to update that the 5th seed alliance had to ask for a backup for 176 after the first quarterfinal and therefore 1699 is now a member of that alliance.

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*Declined 3rd overall pick from 537 :rolleyes:

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SVR has the most messed up alliance selections I have ever seen.

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Agreed. Declining to be alliance captains...? And like 4 declines.

1) 254 1538 751
2) 1323 1868 604
3) 2141* 256 701
4) 670** 846 1351
5) 971 295 1622
6) 2473 192 1280
7) 2159*** 100 766
8) 2456 2035 675

*2141 declined by 670, 971
**670 tries to invite 971, in violation of alliance selection rules
***2159 tries to decline alliance captain position, has a "change of heart," tries to pick 2456, declined, chooses 100 instead.

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Anyone know why he declined to be captain? Or why everyone declined to #3? Was it just lack of preparation, or was it something about their robot?

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This year's SVR seemed messed up in general. Some historically great teams were ranked near the bottom, while some newer teams took higher rankings (congrats to them!). Some things never change, though; the Poofs are, as usual, undefeated. :cool:

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I heard a "we broke" in the webcast. #3 was declined because they arguably were carried into that seed. 971 declined because they were performing at a level this morning where they should have been selected by 1323. Since that didn't happen, they chose to make their own alliance.

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The alliance selections at Seattle Cascade were even more messed up... lots of teams didn't know the rules, and one team even tried to invite themselves.

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Poor girl, she was just a rookie, and she had no idea what was going on. She had gotten her short list of teams to pick from another team, and the other team had accidentally forgotten to remove her teams name from the list. So she just went right on down the list....
I really hope the laughter doesnt color her opinion of FIRST for the worse after this.

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As a note, 971 declined before being notified of the alliance selection rules. Just one more thing to convolute this selection even more!

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SVR selections were pretty laughable. It would have been interesting to see 1323 and 971 against 254 and 1538. I think they at least could give the poofs a better challenge.

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Hey, don't mock the Sacramento Regional champs! 1323+1868+604 could give the Poofs a challenge, too. ;)

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Not mocking, only saying there was the possibility for a stronger alliance...