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Originally Posted by billylo
I will keep this brief.
1. I like the current selection approach.
2. Like Frank, I am troubled by the need for teams who want the best chance of winning, resorting to select someone without intending to partner with them. This is not a behaviour that FIRST would like to promote.
To satisfy both needs, while maintaining the overall selection structure, I would like to hear your thoughts on a proposed adjustment to get rid of those awkward declines.
"The "Host your own party" card"
This 1 time only card can be used by the current team selecting its partners. Once used, all following team captains must "Host their own party" and be captains only.
This CARD essentially achieves the same effect, enabling the teams to enjoy their hard earned rights to break up the top teams, without going through awkward declines. As a bonus, it speeds up the process and remove the negative predicament of employing this strategy.
Thoughts?
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This wouldn't always be used, because as was mentioned before a lot of the time teams don't intend to use scorched earth, it just kind of ends up that way. And even if a team intentionally wants to use scorched earth, it could be to their advantage to pick a few teams first, in hopes that one would accept. Then, once they felt it was time, they would use the card and pick someone outside the top 8.
Anyways, I see no problem with scorched earth. I'm not going to list out my reasons why, because other people in this thread have already done that for me.