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Originally Posted by GaryVoshol
Check the responses in the Great Lakes thread. It also happened at Midwest this year, and at Detroit a year or two ago. There are a variety of reasons for declining to participate in an alliance, and most of them are GP.
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Yeah, it has happened in FLR and GTR this past year. If you are a low seeded team and not picked by the top 2/3 teams, there is a real good plan to deny teams 4-6 to make your own alliance. It's not always the case of being non GP, it's still all about survival in the elimination rounds. If you feel the other team doesn't fit in a plan you have or compliment your robot more then others out there, then go right ahead and deny the pick. Also something happened at GTR, that I have never witnessed before. Team 03 knew coming into the later half of the day that their drive system was on the verge of breaking. They had announced before the alliance pickings that they might be fully operational and requested not to be picked. I felt that was a really professional announcement from a professional team. I can only wish other teams take that and do it as well instead of being selected and then announce to the alliance that they are not full functional.