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Originally Posted by BigJ

Not if you get bumped into the top 8 by in-picking. It only prevents you from being picked, not picking.

Now I'm curious if a team in the top 8 or gets bumped into the top 8 can decline an alliance captain spot on the basis of a non-functioning robot (a reason you'd decline an invitation from outside the top 8 most of the time).

Originally Posted by Uniwersel

If someone picks out of the top 8, the 9th seed becomes an alliance captain. If another team is picked from the top 8, the 10th seed becomes a captain. So if you decline when you're out of the top 8 you're taking a gamble, but you're not completely done.

Edit: I got ninja'd..

Originally Posted by Libby K

Right - but if there had been interpicking there, the #9 seed would have moved up and had the right to select their own alliance (What I'm assuming 610 was going for in that instance). Still, a harsh lesson in "you never know what's going to happen". Yeowch.

Edit:: Someone else beat me to it. Oops.

Ahh yes, thanks. I wasn't thinking it through. So in that example 610 was expecting to get bumped up to 8th seed where they could pick, but it didn't happen.