[waialua359]

Originally Posted by Squillo

Hi, Glenn. I was talking about qualifying for a ticket to both championships under my "double ticket" system. It's kind of a complicated scheme I came up with for solving some of the problems cited on CD with the new "2 championship" arrangement. In my plan, only the alliance captains of the winning and finalist alliances would qualify, so the one where you were a first pick would not have gotten you a "double ticket" (only the two where you were alliance captain + HoF status.

OK, I understand now.
I'm not sure I would implement such a system to give out wild cards only as an alliance captain.
We have been fortunate to have been an alliance captain often in recent years. Those that are familiar with the role, understand that the 2 driving forces to selecting partners is optimizing your alliance while limiting the extent in which the other alliance is better than yours. Giving out a wildcard should not be influenced by me choosing to be an alliance captain vs. accepting a higher seeds selection.
In the case of the Week 1 IE regional, we weighed our options on whether to accept or decline and create our own alliance. Because the #1 seeded team had planned to do what I described above, it would have been scorched Earth if we had declined.
Ultimately, we felt our best chance was to accept and the wildcard was given based on our HOF status to a very good finalist alliance, specifically Team 3250 who is worthy of participating at Champs.