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Originally Posted by ratdude747
My understanding had always been that "available" meant "undrafted", which would be any team not called at any point during alliance selection, which excludes declines. Note that the list of teams undrafted is referred to as "available" during alliance selection in the audience screen program (the link between FMS and the AV crew).
I will also quote the last part of Game Manual 5.4.1, which is about alliance selection:
That leads me to believe, in the current rules, that it is assumed that "available" is determined exclusively by the alliance selection process, not the volition of the team(s) in question. I don't like it, and I think this needs to be Q&A'd, both as a question and as a concern given the conditions this year.
Likewise, in 548's case, the robot/team in question was undrafted, and likely not bagged, and from gist of the OP, that was enough for the powers the be at the event to call said team as the backup.
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This appears to be looking for an implicit definition of "available." However as pointed out, teams not present but "available" under this definition would have to be accepted and that has not been the case. A clear definition of "available" is needed here, and it should include functionally "available."