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Re: Alliance Selection Rules

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Originally Posted by XaulZan11 View Post
I find the lack of consistency frustrating. At Wisconsin our representative asked before alliance selections if he could recieve/send texts on his cell phone and said he could. When it was time to make our second selection, he was told to put the phone away by the MC (not sure what grounds he has to make that decision). At Midwest the represenatives were told they couldn't use phones right before alliance selection; thankfully we planned ahead this time.

If they are concerned that cell phones, laptops, Ipads will cause too much of a delay, how about giving teams 5 minutes to make their selection? If they don't make the selection in time, they are given the highest ranked team.

With whiteboards, teams shouting, hand signals, its just too hard to deny teams communication.
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John,

When a student tells me that the entire regional has to wait because he is waiting for a text to make a selection, I believe that I have full grounds to have him put his phone away. What if something happens and he does not recieve a text back? Are we supposed to wait and wait and wait?
The alliance selections are supposed to be a fun and exciting process; if 3000 people are waiting because your team has not prepared your student with a comprehensive list (especially when you are a 5+ year team), then it dulls the moment while he is waiting for a text. We do not have time to let each team take 5 minutes to make a pick (16 picks x 5 minutes = 1 hour and 20 minutes).

The shouting believe it or not, makes it a much more fun process for other teams to be heard that they want to be picked. It tends to remind me of an episode of the Price is Right.

Moral of the story: Have your team member prepared and you won't run in an issue at all and you won't have to go to CD posting in different sections your dislike for what happened. I understand that your alliance partner had another suggestion of who to go with, but the point is moot as there was time to take care of this before your next pick came and that is still no reason to delay the process any further by waiting for a text as other teams have to face the same difficulties.

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