[Kyle Love]

For a team to deny in the top 8 is okay. Many strategies are pre-planned going into the alliance pickings, some of which tell the person picking that they will not accept an invitation to be allied together. It's all part of the "game" or FIRST would have a rule not allowing this to happen.

For a team to deny out of the top 8 is also okay. If a team has a robot that may have a broken something-or-other and does not want to keep an alliance from having an alliance partner that is at "100%" instead, it's very gracious for them to deny the selection.

As for what happened at GLR this past weekend, I saw it as an immense strategy put into place, and it worked very effectively.