Hey team, let the games begin!

Here’s a handy guide to get your head around the alliance selection process, which determines the teams who will progress to the elimination matches.

There will always be two teams in each of the final alliances, but the number of alliances could change. This means that, depending on the size of your tournament, there will be 4 teams or 8 teams that progress to the eliminations.

If there are 10 teams or under in the qualifying tournament, there will be 2 alliances formed, consisting of 4 teams in total. If there are 11-20 teams, then there will be 4 alliances formed, consisting of a total of 8 teams.

The alliance selection process consists of one selection round, and once formed, these alliances participate in a double-elimination style competition to decide the overall winning alliance.

The alliance selection process

Each team chooses a team member to represent them during the alliance selection in the competition area. The team representative can bring a scouting document and communicate with other teammates to support their choices.

The top four ranked teams are called to the floor first.

The highest-ranked team is the first Alliance Captain. They are the first to invite a team to join their alliance. The invited team can choose to accept or decline the invitation.

If a team invites another alliance captain team and they accept the invitation, the teams ranked beneath them move up one spot and the 5th ranked team will become an alliance captain.

A team has the option to join an alliance if they are not already part of an alliance or have not already declined an alliance invitation.

If a team accepts the invitation, they become part of that alliance.
If a team declines, the alliance captain from the inviting team must extend an invitation to another team.

If a team declines, they CANNOT be invited to another alliance, but they can continue to invite teams to their own alliance if they become an alliance captain.

The selection process continues until all four alliance captains and alliance partners have been appointed.

All unappointed teams will not progress to the elimination matches but may still win judged awards so stick around for the award ceremony.

Good luck!

Eliminations consist of an upper and lower bracket.

Round one sees each alliance play their first match in the upper bracket.

The losing alliance in each match falls into the lower bracket for round two, where they play each other. The winner progresses into round three, and the loser is eliminated.

The winning alliance from each match in round one play against each other in the upper bracket of round two. The winner moves through to the final, and the loser plays round three in the lower bracket.

The winning alliance from match three plays the losing alliance from match four with the winner of this match progressing to the final, and the losing alliance being eliminated.

The winning alliances from matches four and five play each other in the final.

If any of these matches result in a tie, another match is played until the match results in ONE winner.