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Re: A comment about alliance selection in off season events

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Originally Posted by Abhishek R View Post
To use an extreme example, if the goal is to be more inclusive, then why, during the official season, don't the top teams at a regional pick some rookies or teams that haven't been to eliminations before, in order to give them the learning experience and excitement of being in the knockout stages?
It's been done, I've seen it happen, pretty stunned expressions on the captain saying "We Accept", and I've watched some teams then rebuild robots because they are suddenly going to Worlds.

All teams are not greedy about the banners.

And just aside, flying the "GP" slogan doesn't cut it. Jane has multiple posts on that, when I see her post about "GP" I'll worry about it.
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