27-07-2013, 23:11
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AKA: Pinecone
 FRC #0228 (GUS Robotics); FRC #2170 (Titanium Tomahawks) Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Rookie Year: 2006
Location: Glastonbury, CT
Posts: 7,630
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Re: FRC Blogged - What Do You Think? The ‘Invite to Decline’ Strategy
As much as it bugs me, I really don't mind the presence of the serpentine anywhere but IRI. It gives the low seeds a fighting chance at regionals, and honestly at lower levels of play the captain and first pick usually are the teams with the biggest impact on the final score anyway. Yes, teams might decline because of it, but why have we decided that's a bad thing?
Pick your own backup would be kinda cool, but especially at smaller events teams have trouble making a list of 24 pickable robots as it is. Upping that to 32 is asking a lot of teams and scouts, plus it adds more "weak" robots to the Championship roster, which I don't think anyone wants.
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