[Bharat Nain]

During an Off-Season, since there are not too many teams, we know what each robot does, and therefore select who we feel will work best with us. Ocassionaly, friendship also comes in the way of picking alliances.

At PARC, a part of our robot arm was damaged, so we picked our good friends, 1403 as our alliance(they have a good bot too). When it came to picking the third alliance, we hardly had anybody left, so we saw the team sitting next to us(in the stands), Team 11, and we picked them.

However, during a seasonal competition, if you have come with some spirit of winning, it is important to have accurate data of all teams and sit with your teams and pick alliances as D.J.Fluck explained.

Depending on the scouting data, and how well each robot performs in their functions, we select an alliance.