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Originally Posted by Nikkocharger
@Debbie
As a coach when choosing people for your alliance what qualities do you look for when choosing robots
Thanks
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Well, we scout robots individually. We made 2 lists... top scoring robots and top balancing robots. (We didn't care if they balanced the co-op bridge or their own bridge, just if they balanced and by themselves or with someone)
So, we rank the top 24 teams in each of those two categories to start. That's what we made Friday night. We checked the list and adjusted for performance on Saturday, watched for moving up the list or moving down it. Before we knew we were top seed, we were looking for the best robot that could do both things for us.
Your team was actually on our top 24 list for bridge and points. But, when we found out we were first seed, we knew who we wanted for first pick, and our focus shifted for second pick. We wanted a wide-bot for the triple balance. We started ranking wide bots. We ranked our top choices for wide, some were alliance captains, some we knew would go immediately, and we were lucky that no one took the one we wanted.
If all the wide bots had been gone by our pick, we would have gone with our long bot list.
We looked at hybrid score, wheel type, how many motors on wheels, what kind of motor on wheels, super shifters, cooperation on alliances, follow through with plans(for instance - if you make plans to do the coopertition with a team, then go balance on your bridge instead, you probably aren't going to get picked by them),if you can lower the bridge, if you can cross the bump, along with the performance of the robot on the bridge and baskets.
We are still babies at this picking game, so you may want to check with some others to see how they do it.
It depends a lot on who you are with. If we had finished elsewhere in the ranks, we may have looked for different things, but being wide was important that time because we had a ton of scoring with 469 and ourselves, so we weren't worried about that as much as the triple balance. Sorry I'm not more help, but we are still learning too!