[VanMan]

When lots of teams are picking their alliance partners they will look at what they want. Some teams look at rank also, some don't. We didn't really have a scout team so at the last minute we just looked at who we had seen play before and we wanted a awesome offense, and a second defense/offense bot. I can tell you that we did not look at the ranks. The ranks that our alliance partners had were 28 and 48. To us, ranks did not matter (actually we didn't even look at them until after), we wanted teams that complimented our abilities. We are a purely defense/ramp bot. We won the regional.

Another thing to think about is a good team image. Before eliminations, we did not know that we would even get in, let alone pick for ourselves. We wanted to have an image that stuck out in people's minds. I think that our Awkward Turtles stuck out in peoples minds.