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Originally Posted by Citrus Dad
I don't think you're getting what I'm saying. Individual teams can't make the decision at these events on how they select alliances that will best promote the goals of FIRST. It's the prerogative of FIRST, regional directors and event organizers who work with FIRST. It's as though you're saying that each NFL team should get to choose what rules they want to play by.
My point about the alliance is that they paired bots from the same team instead of mixing it up. (I wasn't bothering to be precise--I was making a general observation which you confirmed.)
Finally, you're also not getting my point about this thread (and ignoring my earlier post): I'm only using the Fall Classic as an example of a larger issue about how I think many off season event might be organized to better encourage STEM programs. (Note that I didn't use "Fall Classic" in the title, on purpose.) I'm not going to go through one by one contacting each event to ask them to change. CD is the best way to reach a broad audience.
In my three decades of public policy work I've generally found that when someone says that a message is better delivered privately to individuals one by one, they really mean the message may get out of their control, influence events and lead to an outcome that they won't like. I'll keep posting publicly on CD...
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I won't get into the debate since I think pretty much all points have already been stated multiple times but I don't think FIRST should be setting the standards for off seasons. Those are individually managed by offseason coordinators and therefore they should be able to play with whatever rules they want. NFL may make rules for football, but that doesn't mean me and my friends are going to play by exactly those rules.