**TEAMS – ALLIANCE SELECTION CHANGES** 

Alliance selection has changed this year. This is structured like FRC. Please read 13.6.2 of the Competition Manual.  Alliances are of 2 teams (not 3 like last year). Our events are planned to be over 20 teams, so 6 alliances of 2 teams. **new – double elimination**The double elimination tournament consists of an upper and lower bracket that will scale based on the number of ALLIANCES. Tournaments with 2 ALLIANCES will have those ALLIANCES face each other in the finals.  Each ALLIANCE begins in the upper bracket. If an ALLIANCE wins a MATCH in the upper bracket, they remain in the upper bracket. If an ALLIANCE loses a MATCH in the upper bracket, they transition to the lower bracket. ALLIANCES in the lower bracket must win all subsequent MATCHES to remain in the tournament, i.e., once they lose two total MATCHES, they are out of the tournament.