A comment about alliance selection in off season events

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by Citrus Dad

This is not a decision that should be left to individual teams. It is a decision that should be made at an organizational level, either the event organizer or at the Regional or FIRST HQ level.

Are you saying that the choice of what robots to invite to form an alliance shouldn't be a team decision? That's what it sounds like. I don't think it's what you mean, so I'm obviously not understanding you properly.

Individual teams cannot effectively make an individual "disarmament" decision to avoid making certain alliance decisions. It must be a mutual agreement.

Are you saying that an individual team is unable to decide not to ally with another team? That's not true in general. I thought your principal complaint was with the teams who chose to invite their "B" team, and such choices are most definitely under the individual control of the alliance captain.