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Originally Posted by punkrawker303

good job to the team with newton but what happened with that a whole alliance in one division. i think was not right and did anyone at FIRST that made up the list, see what they did. i would not say anything only if 303 got 222, and 237 or 56 in there divsion. i hope this does not happen again. (not to sound mad but that says you can't win because it is set for you.)

I don't think being on the same alliance made any of our team's chances much better. 1126 could've picked a different capper, we couldn't had our own alliance and picked a different hanger. 340 probably would've gotton pick in the second round of selections, if not by 1126 or 67. We wanted to stick together because we had a great time at Buckeye, and, in a way, our teams had become friends. Besides, if you make a rule that you can't have the same 3 teams that won a regional in the same divisions, you'll need other rules. For example, there were two teams on Newton that had won 2 regionals. Is that fair? I don't think FIRST has time to waste making sure the divisions are "fair". By an extreme stroke of luck, not by setting the divisions, we were fortunant enough to alliance with our partners from Buckeye. It was not "set" for us, we were lucky. Like I said before, if the other alliances really cared that much about us not getting the same alliance, they could've chosen 340.