[B. Flaherty]

Originally Posted by BradleyView

One of the First things we do at Team 229 is instill in our Students and Mentors that It is crucial to know the rules to every aspect of that year's game. We expect that out of our students, and we also expect that out the volunteers running the competition. We know mistakes can be made, but when they are, they must be addressed.
When the 5th seed chose team 358, it was in DIRECT VIOLATION of the Rules. It appeared that all of the field crew and all other teams besides both Teams 229 and 1626 did not realize that this was in direct violation of one of the most fundamental rules in alliance selection. In fact Team 229 had sent a message runner down, but he was being ignored in his attempt to inform officials of the error. We wanted the issue to be addressed before the crew went to far in alliance selection. Usually this rule is addressed before alliance selection, but in this case it was skipped, which we realized may have caused some confusion. I know it may seem odd to see someone yell like that in alliance selection, but attention needed to be drawn before we had to break up several alliances in an effort to fix the problem.

Emphasis mine.

I was not present at the event, but it appears that a more "professional" attempt was made to correct the situation. It is unfortunate that what happened had to happen. However, what's past is past. Let's all try to move forward.