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Re: Proposal: A New Way to Run FIRST Choice

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Originally Posted by apalrd View Post
-What happens if they run out of the sidecar half way through the second round? How do you rank which teams get them? Do you claim that item out of stock for everyone in that round, and save the extra for next year, or do the current auction system for the excess?
My original thought process was to have a draft order and if the part is available when your team number is up you get the part.

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Originally Posted by Andy A.
The 'auction' lasts a week. You place your bids up to some maximum (say 100 points). At the end of the week the items are 'awarded' to the teams who bid the highest for that item. Ties are broken randomly. The process then goes into another round of bidding, with teams allowed to redistribute their remaining points if they lost a bid.

Another idea was to start all teams at 0 points, and start adding them over time- say 10 points a day, such that each team might be able to afford one 'high value' item a day. really desirable things, like a class mate or Crio might cost a couple days allowance.
I saw that in the other thread. My issue is yesterday I had to miss a college lecture to order parts. Now if everyone gets new points at 12 PM EST for a week, I have to miss a week of lectures to get parts. I really think FIRST needs to look to a system that allows for the adults on teams to work our day jobs during the day.

The auction system would be interesting, but I think there would be the potential for a lot of items to go unclaimed. If I bid 35 credits for a cRio and the next lowest bid is 25 credits, I lose out on 10 credits and can't get a second item. If this was implemented, I think the auction would need to play with the same rules as the clearing of US national electric grid on the regional ISOs.

No matter what happens, I still believe we need an updated system. As much as we call for gracious professionalism, the prisoners' dilemma will still exist because of the secrecy surrounding the current system. I think it is fair to say someone got 11 talons yesterday, but no one knows who they are. Without that knowledge being public, calling for gracious professionalism will do almost nothing.

Just my two cents...
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