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Originally Posted by XaulZan11
The advantage of being the #1 seed is that you can talk to your 1st pick about your 3rd and 4th picks. If you make it clear who you intend to pick, the #2 seed (and potentially more seeds) then also have that same advantage.
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I was referring to intentions as far as making the first pick, I guess I should have been more clear. There are of course many advantages to keeping your scouting information secret for later selections.
As far as keeping 1st selection secrets so that your opposing alliances can't make any assumptions for their 2nd robot, I guess I just don't like withholding that much information. I totally get the tactic, but to me it just feels a little too restrictive. Really, such a situation wouldn't give a very big advantage to another alliance anyway, as if all the teams did good scouting, the top picks would most likely fall the same way regardless of if a slightly lower alliance was privy to what robots would be selected in the first round before them. Teams should try to plan for all situations that may arise in alliance selections and how to best deal with them.
In that position, I'd rather keep open relationships with fellow teams than try to use every power I have to make sure they don't possibly get a slight advantage on us.