9th seed decline

[Kevin Leonard]

Originally Posted by Redo91

That cleared it up, thanks.

I knew that alliance captains could not be chosen after they declined. I was unaware that you could still move up from 9 to 8 after declining. I never encountered a circumstance like that in my time as a high school student.

Good for you. It's not a fun situation to be put into. Even now, we have what-if scenarios from Archimedes. "What if we had declined 948?" They usually end with "Well regardless of what kind of alliance we built, we'd have been against 987 and 2415- so we would have lost."
Karthik's story would have been a bit different. A 1114-973-341 alliance? THAT would have been crazy in 2011. (Heck, this year that would be crazy!)