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Originally Posted by bkahl
Don't want to derail the thread... but
195 was an alliance captain on the division so I can attest 1671 falling to a number of things
1) Cans- Newton was full of crazy fast can grabbers and everyone knew that they were necessary to succeed late into the day. 1671 did not have any means of getting cans from the step, discounting them to some.
2) If you look at 1671's performance through quals, it was completely unlike their Regional performance. I didn't see all of their matches, but I know they were trying to get a three tote auto working.
3) 1671, like 195, was very specific in the role they could play. Thus, they did not fit into every single strategy.
Nonetheless, the stars aligned for the World Champion Alliance and they were, without a doubt, lucky to get a steal in 1671.
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This and the fact that 1678 and 118 got together their robots were already some of the best in the world with all of the special charateristics you need on an alliance to move into the elimination rounds: the fastest can arms, three tote autos, and landfill capabilities.
A lot of the comments going around that no one else on Newton scouted is naive and ignores the position everyone else was in being forced to scrounge for landfill or can theft auto bots and couldn't pick a strictly HP robot in the first and second rounds.
Either way that shouldn't take away from how amazing this alliance was! 118, 1678, 1671, and 5012 worked very hard all year to win those final rounds and still had more to show on 5012. Your season wrap videos over the years are incredible. Glad to see another one!