Pascack Pandemonium 2008- Post Season Event

[Liz Smith]

Originally Posted by richardmcc2

Why would you want to have 4 teams on one alliance? That seems like it could crowd the "field" or whatever the course happens to be for the 2008 competition, since most likely the official competition will only have 3 teams per alliance. Of course, you never know, they could increase it to 4 teams per alliance, but probably not.

I believe that the purpose would not to be to have 4 teams on the field at one time, but to have an alliance of 4, with one team off the field during the matches. The benefits of that are that all 32 teams would get a chance to participate in the elimination rounds, and there is always a backup bot available if one gets broken. It can save time, especially at off-seasons when teams that are out quickly pack up and go home. It's been done in a few off-seasons I've been to and has worked out well.