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Unread 04-04-2011, 15:48
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Re: Is alliance selection usually this bad?

I did want to throw a little defense for 2141 being unprepared. Their driver approached me while our team was on the field and let me know that they wanted to pick 1868. I told him that I'd go tell our scout team that and send someone to let his scouts know where we stood as soon as we could. He responded with, "Oh ... I am our scout team ... and driver ... and lead designer."

When we found out that 1323 was going to pick us, I let him know right away and he gave me a pretty lost look. I felt really bad for the kid. With the size of his team, he just didn't have any scouting support. I pointed him in the direction of 971 and wished him the best of luck, but we can see that it did not work out terribly well when it came to actually picking.

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Originally Posted by AdamHeard View Post
604 was clearly a better choice for the #2 alliance.

No alliance was going to beat 254 by playing a strictly offensive strategy, and 691 was nowhere near as capable of playing defense as 604.

The highly defensive strategy that 1323 had their alliance play was their best shot at winning, and it worked quite well for them. If their alliance had been more reliable in automode and deploying minibots, they mgiht have won it.
The alliance called our time out and gathered all the drive teams and lead scouts together right before the finals to get a little breather. The looks on their faces was pretty good when I said, "We can't throw a single tube if we want to win." After some discussion it -almost- worked out for us. 1868 getting the minibot up the pole first in both finals matches was a pretty rewarding moment for the girls with all the work they put on completely redesigning the deployment.
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