The same way they always do - select seams so the alliance is most likely to win the event. This always means to pick high scorers. This year there is no defense. Among the high scorers, the key is going to be how well robots complement each other. That is, each of the following three robots' teams would be more likely to select each other than another robot like themselves:
- a tote-flipping landfill miner
- a fast, strong RC snatcher
- a fast, efficient HP station loader