Declining

[Bob]

How many teams do you know that have been denied twice in a row. Well we were this year at the Pittsburg regional. That just seemed to be a shock to me.

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by Bob

How many teams do you know that have been denied twice in a row. Well we were this year at the Pittsburg regional. That just seemed to be a shock to me.

Try Wildstang being declined 4 times in 1999: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9590 I beleive team 60 was declined 3 times in a row that year also.

However, the rules were a little different then. You could decline one team and still be picked.

[Allison K]

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?!?!

At Great Lakes Regional we (226 were having a lot of troubles with our arm gearbox). It was working at the time but we knew it was rather fragile and not up to elimination standards. The drive team talked with the engineers and the whole team talked about it over lunch and we decided that should we get picked we would decline. We were however, not put in that position.

Allison

PS- For all of you midwest teams we spent saturday fixing our arm and we are now ready and raring to go.