[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by Billfred

EDIT: And another idea in a completely different vein, inspired by Rick TYler's post on page 1:


So imagine if we took this a step further. The Top 8 would be prohibited from picking each other, which I'm normally in favor of allowing, but that would be too painful here. Each alliance captain would have X number of points with which to purchase their alliance partners. Note that I didn't specify how many--alliances in eliminations would not be limited in size, at least in theory. You could just bid on two great partners and hope nobody breaks, or maybe have four or five mid-card robots that you could switch between to suit your strategy.

This sounds fun. Kinda like a GM building a sports team by signing free agents, while restricted by a salary cap.

But I do think the higher seeded alliance captains should get a bigger budget. Say the number one alliance captain gets 135 bananas to bid with, number two gets 130 bananas, and so on, with number eight getting 100 bananas. Once you've spent your bananas, they are gone -- use 'em or lose 'em.