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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
Packing up our pits is what 116 did in 2005 and 2006 at IRI, and we still loved the event. And honestly, I think I might have preferred that, although other teams and team members opinions will likely vary. And while we knew that we may never actually play, having your fate in the hands of other teams is a very unsavory situation.
And I only suggested having to play a team once during the eliminations, so unless you drafted a broken team, you shouldn't have to play a broken team.
The way I would envision it is that each team only HAS to take the field once (but can play in more than one), during the entire elimination rounds. So, if you did lose your first match, your back-up would have to take the field in your second. But if you won/tied that first match, you could opt to save them for later (but you'd have to play them the next time you were on the verge of being eliminated or if you're on the verge of winning the finals and they still haven't been played).
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But if you lose the first round, and are forced to play your backup in the second round, odds are that you're at even more of a disadvantage than before (unless you look at select alliances like 48's or 968's where they took full advantage of the backup bot)
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Originally Posted by Richard
BTW, it's not just the back-up that might be left on the sidelines by an AC pursuing their best shot at victory -- any member of the alliance might suffer the same fate. As I recall, 469 sat out in favor of the high-scoring 148, and that was the alliance captain's prerogative.
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Very true. 177 was 968's second pick, and didn't play once.