2017 Team Update 4

[MasterMentor]

Originally Posted by EricLeifermann

I'm not saying that you should be able to pick for all of quals, but elims there is plenty of time to be able to pick where you want to go. They did it in 2015 why can't they do it now?

Actually, no, they didn't do that in 2015. They have NEVER* allowed teams to choose what player stations they wanted to be in (my memory only goes back as far as 2009, which I think was the first year of the non-IFI control system genesis - it may be possible they allowed it prior to 2009, but that was a different system right?). I believe 2015 was the first game where a rule similar to C12 was introduced, because teams wanted to "migrate" to other player stations (I know mine did for sure!).

* - The only time teams have ever been able to choose what player station they are in is during FIRST Championships. However, never during normal Regional, District, nor District Championship tournaments. I asked one of the Championship Scorekeepers once why they didn't allow station selection except at Championships, and they said it was because of the 4-team alliances or something to that effect. I think I'd be cool with 4-team alliances at a Regional tournament if that was the tradeoff!

-George