Declining

[Bcahn836]

Originally Posted by Korbin

I was watching the VCU broadcast, and during the alliance selection there was a team selected, that was not one of the alliance captains, and they declined, I was wondering, why would anyone do this? Am I wrong remembering that this is giving up a chance to continue on in the competition?!?!

In case you are still wondering team 836 declined team 345's offer because of a broken caster, and 16 of our 20 students and numerous mentors, parents and the bus driver that went on the trip were sick do to the virus. However if we could of found a 7 inch caster we would have accepted. Additionally Team 836 thought it would be unfair to team 345 to accept and not be able to compete or compete at full strength. And also team 345 didn't know that we were broken. We broke the caster on the practice field 5 minuets before alliance pairings, we were fixing a bug in our auto mode, that seemed to make things worse.