A few Off Season Questions

[Chris is me]

If you really wanted to, you could consider doing eight two-robot alliances and two backup teams. It would be an interesting twist on this game certainly, but that's the kind of thing the teams going would probably have to agree on.

Six alliances seems like the way to do it. Four would be better if it didn't exclude a third of the already small event - seems to make more sense to have 3v6 and 4v5, then the winners of those matches go onto regular semi-finals, giving 1 and 2 a bye.

I feel this is a particularly good solution with the serpentine, as it gives the alliances that made the last two picks of the draft extra time to potentially repair or modify their alliance partner.

[AdamHeard]

If you do byes, you should give the #1 and #2 seed the option of passing on those byes to a lower seed.

We've been given byes at a few offseasons, and it's just bummed our team out; we'd rather play more matches.

[FrankJ]

You could start with semi finals rather than quarter finals. Gives you more time for seeding matches.

[AllenGregoryIV]

As a team going to Red Stick. I think we should make sure we get all the qual matches we can 9-10 or more to make sure we get a good solid ranking. We're also training new drivers so the more practice the better.

We should do 1-6 alliances so no one is left out and snake should be fine with this field of teams. I don't see any supper #6 alliance having a huge advantage here.

1 plays the winner of 4 vs. 5.
2 plays the winner of 3 vs. 6.

I like the idea of passing down the bye.
1->4->5
2->3->6

That way no alliance is punished if they want to play more matches and they just sub into the other alliancess spot in the quarterfinals.

Also I would really love it if we could somehow confirm with teams the week before that they are coming. That way we could possibly do a tentative match schedule. Events with tentative match schedule > than events without.

[orangemoore]

You could just have 4 alliances of 4 teams but only 3 teams would play each match. This would resolve the issues of having 6 alliances and with only 4 alliances you could also up the number of matches to win from 2 to 3. This would give teams more potential matches to play. And it would likely take close to the same amount of time as an 8 alliance elimination bracket

[kiasam111]

At our off-season (The Duel Down Under) we modified the game so that it was played with 2 robot alliances instead of 3. We had 14 teams, therefore 7 alliances.

QFs
QF2 - 2v7
QF3 - 3v6
QF4 - 4v5

SFs
SF1 - 1vWinner QF3
SF2 - Winner QF2vWinner QF4

F
Winner SF1vWinner SF2

I quite liked having the smaller alliances, because it meant that it was easier for newer teams to find space on the field to play their game. =)

[sarah_storer]

As another team participating in Red Stick Rumble, I second the idea for alliance #1 and #2 having a bye to the semis. I ALSO really like the idea of being able to pass those byes to other alliances if they want to play more matches.

Can't wait!