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Originally Posted by waialua359
Here's the real challenge. How does an alliance politely and respectfully ask an alliance captain to sit out, when its obvious or best the other 3 robots play in a specific match? I would guess that there are many instances every season where this should happen, but alliances limit themselves because its not an option anyone would consider on the table.
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This is an interesting topic.
In 2014, at the Archimedes Division, Team 20 was on an alliance where we wanted to bench the alliance captain.
The Alliance was 4077, 195, 20, and 4265.
Things got very heated during the strategy meeting, and in the end we had 4077 play the first match, and when that didn't succeed, we tried subbing them out. We ended up losing the quarterfinals series on foul points, and to this day I wonder how we could have done that differently, because on paper our Alliance was excellent.
This past weekend, at IRI, we had a discussion about potentially benching 3620 in favor of 3683 after we lost our first semifinal match. In the end, we decided to keep 3620 in, but there were definitely some upset individuals involved.
There's a combination of factors in play here, ranging from pride to the differing motivations teams have for playing. I don't know the best way to approach it, or anything, but I know you have to be careful when people's prides and emotions are at stake.