9th Seed not Getting Picked for Elims?

[Mr. Lim]

Originally Posted by jijiglobe

Did people deliberately not interpick within the top 8 to leave them out? As far as I can tell it wouldn't be very GP but it seems possible. Just wondering... I have heard of teams picking someone they know will reject them just to stop them from forming an alliance with someone else...

No I don't think that was the case at all, although it's an intriguing question for the future.

I was a mentor on 188 during the 2009 FLR, and I remember alumnus Shankar Manoharan (now a strategy mentor for 2056) correctly predicting that 610 could not decline, or else they would be shut out from playing in the elimination rounds. This was before alliance selections even happened.