Who thinks fixed alliances would be interesting?

[mwtidd]

Originally Posted by sgreco

You are entitled to your own opinion, but I think this would be really unfair and it would take the fun out of the competition.

Playing with different teams every match and working together with them is half the fun. Teams that play well earn the right to play on a good alliance. If you got stuck with a bad team, the entire competition would be ruined. I wouldn't want to pay $4000 for a regional and get stuck playing with a team that couldn't do anything.

Working together with the same alliances would be interesting for strategy, but not interesting enough to be worth it, given the aforementioned problems.

~ Steven

My intention was that stronger teams would help the weaker teams, and therefore increase the overall level of play.
If I had been paired with a weaker robot, you better believe I'd strap a minibot to it and turn it into a strong robot, immediately

This year when it comes time to elims, more times then not it comes down to the 2 best minibots. Create a minibot monopoly and you win. If there were fixed alliances I think elim rounds would be a lot more interesting.

Thanks for your feedback though, I'm sure many if not most will share your viewpoint.