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Re: Is alliance selection usually this bad?

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Originally Posted by lineskier View Post
I think the philosophy behind the rule, is to not allow stacked teams. It's already a huge problem this year. Allow teams to rig selection and it becomes a bigger problem.
From what I've heard, it's the selection-rigging that was the bigger issue back when there were unlimited declines.

For the record, the toughest selection for a single team probably happened back in 1999/2000, somewhere around there. Mind you, this is back before we all got this whole selection thing fully figured out. This is at the Nationals (and yes, I do mean Nationals, not Championship) at Epcot. One team somewhere in the middle of the order called on 5 or 6 or more different potential partners before getting an acceptance, or something like that (memory is kind of funny when stuff is that long ago). Picked already, declined, declined due to needing to catch a plane, picked already, declined, that sort of thing, until someone finally accepted. Not a place I'd want to be...
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