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Re: Alliance Request

A little bit of advertising can put you on the radar. Asking if you're on the list will get you knocked down.

What have you demonstrated on the field? Actual, live, match data. Ask your scouts. (If your scouts aren't scouting your own team, you're making a mistake. This isn't the place to go into WHY, but the short version is that it's a great tool for calibrating your scouting system as well as where you are.)

Then, what you can do is to talk to teams that you think your skill set can complement. Just say, "hey, this is what we have shown, we think we'd be an asset to you guys because of this" and leave it at that. Will some teams ignore that? Sure. But a smart team will check that against their own data (be wary of that check if your scouts inflate your data!), and if they come looking for you, TALK. (Don't get me started on what happens if you ignore a higher seed that wants to talk to you. Just, don't.)
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