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Originally Posted by artK
Galileo 2011 was also the division where 973 (who also had a really fast minibot) fell to the pick right before 294.
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Yeah, sidenote, I completely told this story wrong. Point being, 973 (I think, 973 =/= 294) was really, really fast and fell really, really late.
Right, apparently I don't still remember it that well at all. Ahem. EDIT: Yes, what 294 above me said. Sorry about that, folks.
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Originally Posted by artK
This reminds me, that based on how champs has ended in the past, I think this year, a #1 or #2 alliance will pick a robot with a really fast can grabber (w/o cheesecake) that the other alliances ignored, and said alliance will win champs because of this second round steal. It happens almost every year, with teams like 610, 16, 973, 177, 971, and 148 (the third champion robots from 2013-2008) falling to one of the last picks of the draft.
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Yes, it is quite common. In fact, our first Einstein appearance (2013) was as the second round draft pick of a full court shooting AC who'd gotten a floor pickup in the first round. We were a cycler with a 30 point climb. Weird combinations fall through the cracks somehow.
In fact, the draft might be even cooler than that this year. As Rangle asked, what does 1114 do as the second fastest can grabber? The thing is, this isn't just a subdivision question. If the point calculus works out to mean that the #
nth AC can win their bracket with the
mth fastest burglar there, the problem isn't whether they're the
mth fastest burglar in their subdivision. The question is whether they're the
pth
at Worlds--or rather,
qth fastest that's going to make it to Einstein. Meaning that if you're thinking about winning the whole shebang, you're not just scouting your subdivision's burgling speeds, you're scouting all of them. And making some kind of weighted judgement, consciously or otherwise, as to what the other Einstein-likely ACs are doing during selection. Hmm...I wonder what happens if alliance selection doesn't occur at the same time on each field.