The smaller bits of history

[Andy A.]

Originally Posted by Jake177

Pre-2002: Each alliance picked an extra robot for eliminations, but they were not required to participate in any elimination matches. So you ended up with teams getting credit for being part of winning alliances without actively participating in any of their elimination matches. (I know this was the setup in 2001, but I can't speak definitively on 2000 or 1999.)

It was indeed the situation in 2001.

In fact, 2001 was the first year that 95 won a regional. We were the alliance captain, but the 'bot was pretty tired at that point so we didn't play a single elimination match. The 'backup' pick played for us the whole time.

2001 was sort of a funny year game wise, all things considered...