[wasayanwer97]

With all due respect:

Originally Posted by Dr.Bot

----- Teams picked for finals, probably based on high goal ability or name recognition - I am guessing ------

1868 50 120 Space Cookies

One of our mentors already addressed this in the previous thread. 1868 was not selected on name recognition, or purely having seen them shoot into the high goal. Our scouting consistently showed that they would make a great second leg/truss/assisting robot for our alliance.

Originally Posted by Dr.Bot

Perhaps some statistician can analyse the the strength of alliances based on rank vs. assist scores to prove or disprove my hypothesis.

No statistician on earth will ever be more reliable than a good scouting team. Statistics and rank don't mean anything, especially in a game like this. If you want to prove or disprove a hypothesis, watch matches.

Originally Posted by Dr.Bot

Also, I am guessing at what the criteria for the third picks were - only the alliance captains know, and when you're the 8th to 3rd alliance - you probably haven't really got a handle on who to pick.

Please stop guessing, especially after some of us have publicly stated our decision rationale. Please don't be so quick to assume that an alliance captain below 3rd doesn't have a competent scouting team.

And just to say it again, we were proud to have 1868 on our alliance. They were friendly, cooperative, and good-spirited, making for some of the best matches we have ever played in.

Now please, let's stop