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Originally Posted by bduddy
It decreases your variance. Let's say that you have a very good robot, better than all of the other teams at your regional. If all of the other teams were at a roughly similar level, you would expect to win every match. However, if some of the other teams were OK and some were very bad, you could lose some matches due to the randomness of the alliance selection algorithm. Of course, this affects everyone equally, but if you have a good robot you want to remove this randomness.
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I agree. Having a poor robot on your alliance hurts more than having a poor one on the opposing alliance helps. In addition at a regional you can have a robot on your alliance several times, depending on regional size.