Alliance Selection Rules

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by Basel A

Are there rules about this? As a "media pass person," my primary role WAS to take pictures, but at times I discussed strategy, talked to refs (they got everything right, fortunately), etc., though never during a match!

I'm pretty sure Jane isn't touching on people who do that, but rather people using the Media pass as a "floor badge".

[EricH]

I think it's decided event-to-event. I've seen it both ways.

And, as we all know, rules that change from event to event are a bad thing.

FWIW, I think they may be trying to stretch <T25> and <T26> to cover alliance selection. That's not a legitimate stretch; the team reps aren't even in the alliance stations... And it can be argued that if the device in question doesn't have it's connection on, it's included in <T26> anyway.

The GDC needs to rule one way or the other. Otherwise, Archimedes captains will be complaining about Newton captains being allowed to use electronic devices during selection... Well, hopefully not that bad.

[Chris is me]

I pulled out the rule book and after I showed them there was no rule, they didn't say they were enforcing T25 or T26 - they agreed with my interpretation that alliance selections are not matches. They just said that because it wasn't in the rulebook, it was their jurisdiction.

I can't remember if I asked to call FIRST HQ - but I think I did and they said it was too late or something. Oh well.