It's interesting to see the posts speculating on pick strategy, seeing as I'm one of the people who will be forced to pick.
A few things to note:
There were a number of Build Blitz candidates who were listed as ineligible (mostly due to work conflicts that time of year or uncertainty about their availability). Notably, the great Raul Olivera will not be bringing his legendary skills into the Blitz.
In addition Karthik & Grant Cox will be serving as Build Blitz Sideline Reporters -- they'll each be embedded with one of the two teams, but will not be part of the primary draft.
The strategy going into this sort of draft is interesting. There are a few considerations which are important to me, which many people may not think about.
1. I want to fill TeamJVN with people I've worked with before and ideally who have worked together before; in my opinion, this will improve efficiency.
2. I want to make sure we have a team with a wide-range of skills. I know I personally am not the world's best prototyper or builder (my skills are more related to CAD design). You can bet I want to make sure TeamJVN gets some great prototyping talent early in the draft.
My first pick is not who you'd expect.
I can't begin to express how excited we are.
-John