3 Team Alliance + On Deck

[Lil' Lavery]

Depends, if you alliance partners are good enough to handle the load(a #1 and a #2/3 seed on the same alliance) you try to win it with your sub, no point in risking your robot to further damage if you still have a good chance of winning.

[Lisa Perez]

I also think it depends on the seriousness of the problem. If the team with the malfunctioning robot can fully assure the alliance captain that the problem is not highly critical, then it may be a good idea to select said team as the 3rd member of the alliance, and vice versa.

I maintain hope that teams will uphold the FIRST value of gracious professionalism and decline the possibility of being a member of an alliance if they know that repair is not possible.

[Billfred]

Lisa: Bet on it. I know it happened last year.

However, here comes another question. If I'm with Redateam, and our robot is blasted to pieces but we're still on reserve, can we decline?

I hope a Team Update will cover that soon. Because nobody would want to draft a broken robot because they were seeded in the right place.

[aaronD341]

I was thinking, if one (or both) of your partners are broken before a match if they go in and just sit then if you get back there that is ten points so then it might not be so bad if someone breaks