my team has also noticed that a newer team (past 3-4 years) will often get paired together and face an alliance with three veteran teams (older than 3 years) this happened a lot at Boston, we were often paired up with newer teams (no offense we were all good) but still we were no match for the likes of 233, 121, 40, 126, etc...what i am trying to say is: sometimes it seems that alliances are really not random, and that sometimes they favor the vetran teams, however:
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Originally Posted by Sean Schuff
A case in point is last year's Boilermaker where we had just plain bad luck and wound up seeded dead last. Our robot worked fine but we ended up playing against Beatty three times and never played with them. Had the alliance been the other way where we played WITH them three times, we would have possibly seeded higher. Fortunately we were selected for elims by team 135 who recognized our abilities despite our ranking.
Sean
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this sort of applied to us this year, where we were ranked 40 out of 45 at boston, but 121 and 233 recognized us for our defensive skills and we helped win the regional