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Originally Posted by Citrus Dad
This seems to be an argument that the third team on a small regional or district alliance shouldn't be included in the list of the championship alliance. Often those teams come from below the 50th percentile in the event performance list.
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This may be going off on a bit of a tangent, but there are times when you really feel the difference between a 66 team regional and a district event. The first year the PNW was going to districts I knew elimination alliances would be different but it didn't really hit home for me until our third district event.
I was enjoying the fact that with only 30 teams it wasn't too hard to keep all the teams in my head as alliance selection happened. We were the 2nd alliance captain and as the 3rd robots were chosen a teammate asked me "are there only two robots left that can handle a ball?" The hairs stood up on my spine for a moment as I double checked the robots left. There were exactly three that would be useful to us. And that meant that with our pick we'd get the last one of them. And alliance #1 got hosed.