Alliance Selection - Coaches forcing

[jpearman]

This is the third try, guess I have found a bug in the forum code, it keeps deleting half my post.

@4256

This event had 7 3 team alliances. The top ranked alliance got a bye.

So I have an another question (again, forum lost half my post). Why were teams 8, 9 and 10 allowed to be second picks? There should have been 7 alliance captains according to this rule.

• If there are between 18 and 23 teams at a tournament
Alliances will still consist of three teams
The number of alliances will be equal to the amount of teams divided by three, less any remainder.
(e.g. If there are 19 teams, 19/3 = 6.33, 6 picking teams)

and according to this rule once they declined they should have been ineligible to be selected in the second round.

If a team declines an invitation, they CANNOT be invited into another alliance, but are still
available to select their own alliance if the opportunity arises.

Here is an exchange from a 2014 thread.

@TEAM LEGEND

Just a hypothetical question…
Lets say in the alliance selection process that 1st seed team asked the 2nd seed to alliance with them, and the 2nd seed says no. Then 1st seed went on to ask the 3rd seed and so on and so on, and they all said no. What would happen ?? Probably never happen but if it did…

Thanks.

@Karthik

You’re right, this probably will never happen. In this extremely unlikely scenario, the team would play without partners, and all declining teams would be ineligible to be selected.

@TEAM LEGEND

So if that scenario played out, you would have the first 8 seed teams in 1 on 1(no alliances) matches right?

Thanks for the clarification.

am I missing something?