Ungracious professionalism at internationals?

[jblay]

Originally Posted by Grim Tuesday

The assumed (assumptions make an $@#$@#$@# out of u and me) conclusion is that either of their two alliance partners had some inside knowledge that no one else in the division knew that led to these two picking them.

It is also possible that they were told a slightly different version of broken than the other captains, bravery like mentioned earlier is the other main possibility. I don't think stupidity or poor scouting would be part of it considering 1538 is a very smart very elite team that has been around the block.

Something that ran through my mind is that if the intent was to let 217 drop to the #1 alliance, a good strategy towards achieving that would be to say "we would accept if you picked us." This way you cannot call a bluff without risking an immobile robot on your alliance. If it was said "if you pick us we would decline" it would make it really simple to call a potential bluff because you could just pick 217 and be rejected and move onto your next pick and select them after the decline.