Thread: Negotiating for Alliance Selections During the Championship
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Re: Negotiating for Alliance Selections During the Championship
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Originally Posted by dellagd View Post
Why hide your intentions for first selections as an alliance captain or the top pick until its official? I personally don't subscribe to any reason that teams shouldn't be straightforward and forthcoming about alliance selection. There's no reason to delay realistic discussions, and if you know things will be a certain way, just get started as soon as you can.
I think if you're the one seed and you're gonna pick the #2 seed or the obvious best robot, sure go ahead and tell everyone because they would be expecting it anyway. But if I'm at championship and my team has qualified first, and we've had discussions as a team and are planning on digging a bit deeper into the field, I'm going to keep that a bit closer to my vest. If everyone thinks we're going to pick #2, and we come out and pick #10, it's chaos, and that works in our favor. That's just how I would do it, but I think many teams lean more in this direction than towards showing all their cards.
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