The only pick I have personally seen that would come anywhere near "irrational" for me was when one alliance picked the lowest seeded team, then the alliance immediately after that picked a much higher seeded team, where the two teams were the same 4 numbers mixed around. It may have been confusion, it may have been a valid pick, I don't know, but it seemed off to me.
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Originally Posted by Zac
One of my favorite alliances to be on from this past year was at the Boston regional. 1768 was with the alliance captain 1058, as well as 5563 (they actually came in as a backup robot early in the eliminations, and were an absolute jackpot). I have never felt so comfortable on an alliance. 1058 did what the were doing best and made sure to get boulders in the low goal for the guaranteed tower strength, this simultaneously gave the rest of the alliance a huge sense of relief. All of a sudden there was so much less stress to score X number of boulders, 1058 has that covered. This meant less stress for the other drivers. 5563 was absolutely awesome, and knocked down the defenses while being simultaneously invisible most of the time, they were cautious in when they crossed as to not disrupt any shots that were being taken, and they always stayed close to the defenses to allow for easy driving around for the rest of the alliance. 5563 also allowed for 1058 and 1768 to climb on the outside positions of the tower, and would then drive up the batter at the last second to avoid bumping either robot during the critical "get the hooks on" phase. It was fantastic. Each robot on the alliance allowed the others to play to their strengths.
~Zac
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Meanwhile, on the other side of the glass from this, we were the backup team for 5422 with 125 and 238. After making it into the finals (marking a District event where both finalist alliances had 4 teams, no less), we were told before one of the matches that scouting teams had had their eye on us, and the reason no one was told to pick us in the first place was because they forgot. No disrespect to the alliance captain or the team we ended up replacing, but not a fun position to be in.