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Re: No REJECTIONS!!!!!!!!! - Too Harsh
Posted by Jeff Burch, Engineer on team #45, TechnoKats, from Kokomo High School and Delphi Delco Electronics Systems.
Posted on 3/29/99 10:38 AM MST
In Reply to: Re: There can be no REJECTIONS!!!!!!!!! posted by Cartman on 3/28/99 8:59 PM MST:
I disagree that there are no good reasons to refuse an alliance. The innability of a team to reject an offer can be just as abused as allowing rejections. A team could use this rule to draft the team most capable of defeating them just to keep them from being choosen by an opponent.
Take this example: the #1 seed chooses their first partner, the partner they intend to play all their matches with, then choose a second for the soul purpose of making that team inaccesible to another alliance with no intention of ever fielding them. If the team choosen second knows that the #2 seed wants them as their second pick and will play them they should have the option to turn down the #1 seed.
The scenario gets even worse when you imagine that the team they really want as their number one pick took a dive or feigned injury to be unappealing to the other teams allowing the #1 seed to pick their arch-enemy first. This may be far-fetched, but not more so than some of the doom-n-gloom scenarios given as reasons to eliminate rejections.
You might say this arch-enemy team should be glad to be on the number 1 seed alliance because they have the best chance of winning, but we're in it to PLAY more than just to win! I'm willing to work with whatever rules FIRST believes to be necessary and fair, I'm just providing another point of view.
Jeff Burch
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