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Re: Alliance Selection System

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Originally Posted by Grim Tuesday View Post
Just to stir up the discussion (and I don't like this idea myself): What if the top 4 teams were randomized for order of pick?
Not that I endorse the idea either, but boy would that shake up the show. Randomizing the top 4 robots? Potentially this still creates the x+1 alliance, but it would also give other robots yet another chance at toppling the top.

At some regionals, it was shown that just being in the top 4 doesn't always mean an automatic bid to champs. Look at Oregon or Queen City. The 8th alliance beat out the #1s all over the place, and I'm sure there's other regionals where the #1 got upset by a lower alliance.

Going off of that idea, it'd be interesting if instead, it was 1-8, random pick order or random assigned.
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