[russell]

Last year in portland we were a rookie team, and we were set up right next to the Issaquah Robotics Society (Dont mess with the IRS I think was their little slogan thing) which was another rookie team I am pretty sure. In any case we had a few disasters along the way, but we were pretty good at capping goals, but even so we were totally shocked when they picked us as aliance partners along with another team that was all wearing green (I got their number upstairs but Im lazy). Then both of their robots had electrical problems, and we had to pretty much singlehandedly take on other aliances. That wasnt fun because it meant we got to double empty goals, but the point is that all you have to do is have a few desireable qualities that fit with another teams strategy, then they dont care if your team didnt exist until last week, they will still pick you.