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Originally Posted by rtfgnow
I saw a comment on CD that at a 24 or 25 team event this year (I believe it was a NC district, I don't remember what event) that the first seed alliance would go with only two robots if that was the case. Extrapolating (which to some people is a bad word) that logic, there would be 8 single robot robot alliances since every team declined before the second seed was able to make their first pick.
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I was actually there, it was the UNC Asheville District. There were 24 teams present. At the team representative meeting, the head ref said the rules indicated that if a team for some reason could not play eliminations, the #1 seed would play with 2 robots instead of the usual 3, and that there would be no backup robots. Thankfully, all 24 teams were available to play, and I actually enjoyed watching Elims, but the logic above seems to be what would happen. 1 broken bot = no captures for the rest of the event for that alliance. (Even if only 2 bots are formally on the alliance, 2 < 3.)
In the end, though, this is purely theoretical. No reasonable team below 15th position would decline an invitation to an alliance should they want to play in elims, as fun as theorizing about such a situation would be.