[GKrotkov]

Here's my thinking about MAR:

If feel that any MAR alliance without 1640 isn't really doing as best it can. They bring a pretty quick canburgular and an upside of 3 stacks from the human player station.

There are only really two dominant landfill robots from MAR: Vulcan Robotics and TechFire. As far as I (and my scouting data) can tell; Vulcan comes out ahead in pure points scored, but TechFire has the advantage when it comes to being a great 3rd partner, facilitating high scores by human player stackers on their alliance and having a slightly faster canburgular. I think that 225 would edge out 1218 for the landfill spot on a MAR alliance.

As for the last robot, it would have to feed from the human player, and preferably either have a 20 pt autonomous or canburgulars (this allows this alliance to fight over all 4 cans and go for a 20pt auto). Efficiency with cans is desirable as usual, with extra importance because of the likely ability of this alliance to use all 7 cans. Also, there are only 5 stacks of totes behind the alliance wall, so a robot capable of >2 stacks isn't better than one capable of exactly 2 stacks (given 1640 running 3 stacks). Of the high tier HP loaders in MAR, I can only think of 3 robots that fulfill these requirements pretty reasonably. 303 (incredibly consistent 2 stacks from HP station), 2607 (3 tote auto?), 219 (Center canburgulars). 303 would make the alliance incredibly consistent, but the highest upside for the alliance would come with 2607, for whom my data says 2 stacks of 6 is a stretch, but doable.

Final decision: 1640, 225, 303