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Originally Posted by Grim Tuesday
The assumed (assumptions make an $@#$@#$@# out of u and me) conclusion is that either of their two alliance partners had some inside knowledge that no one else in the division knew that led to these two picking them.
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It is also possible that they were told a slightly different version of broken than the other captains, bravery like mentioned earlier is the other main possibility. I don't think stupidity or poor scouting would be part of it considering 1538 is a very smart very elite team that has been around the block.
Something that ran through my mind is that if the intent was to let 217 drop to the #1 alliance, a good strategy towards achieving that would be to say "we would accept if you picked us." This way you cannot call a bluff without risking an immobile robot on your alliance. If it was said "if you pick us we would decline" it would make it really simple to call a potential bluff because you could just pick 217 and be rejected and move onto your next pick and select them after the decline.