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Originally Posted by faust1706
This happens just about every year at many competitions. It goes away at st louis. Many teams deny higher seeds to form their own alliance, actually. The most denials I saw in a row were 3.
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I haven't read the whole thread, but in 2013, in the Northern lights regional, there were 5 turn downs for the number one alliance. I know this isn't exactly a representation of worlds, but my point is still valid; sometimes you simply need to build your own alliance.
[Edit] After reading the thread: I want to piggyback off of what another mentor on 876 said:
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Originally Posted by BJT
The spirit of FIRST can mean a lot of things. One of them I think is good honest competition and being rewarded for being the best. Penalizing the top 4 or 8 teams for their success would cause a lot of messy unintended consequences no matter how many feel-good terms we use to describe it.
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Key phrase in this post (as I see): messy unintended consequences, and as it was brought up in a previous post:
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Originally Posted by iVanDuzer
Then the Wildcard system came in, and there was a change almost overnight. No more boos at Alliance Selections! People were actually cheering during Eliminations! Some prominent posters on CD who were quite anti-1114/2056 suddenly became some of their biggest supporters. Teams actually got way better because suddenly, they didn't have to beat 1114/2056 (an incredibly daunting task), they just had to beat everyone else (still daunting, but way more manageable).
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If anything allowing 1 to pick 2 and so on is good for FRC. With wildcards implemented good teams with amazing robots can do their thing, not being thrown off of their game by being handicapped for their success, not feeling lash back because they are good. Besides a team can only hold one spot to worlds anyway, if they win again it gets passed on to another team. And while it sucks to lose in the finals, if the winning alliance members already hold spots the playing field
is leveled. Even if you are not walking away from a regional/district with a blue banner you are still walking out of there with a ticket for worlds. Is that so bad?
If you a "middle" team this still plays in your favor, there are eight second pick spots per event any one of which could get you into the finals for a win. Then there are several wildcards. Why wouldn't you try hard in more than one aspect of the competition? There are so many ways to win that you can't just get hung up on one.
-Skye