Should the Number One seed be Alloud to pick the Number Two seed?

[Anthony4939]

My only issue with this is the #1 alliance choosing a third robot, and that robot being told not to participate. I understand that they are giving another team a strong chance to go to St. Louis, but IMO it is not within gracious professionalism to choose a team and then tell them to not touch the driver's station.

Saw this in three regionals thus far this year where a random team was chosen, for in some cases great reasons that do not involve the actual robot, to then see that robot get parked off to the side while robots 1 and 2 win the tournament.

[orangemoore]

Originally Posted by Anthony4939

My only issue with this is the #1 alliance choosing a third robot, and that robot being told not to participate. I understand that they are giving another team a strong chance to go to St. Louis, but IMO it is not within gracious professionalism to choose a team and then tell them to not touch the driver's station.

Saw this in three regionals thus far this year where a random team was chosen, for in some cases great reasons that do not involve the actual robot, to then see that robot get parked off to the side while robots 1 and 2 win the tournament.

Don't assume that they were told to do nothing. Just because they sat there doesn't mean that decision was single sided. It is very likely the idea came up and that team agreed to it.