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Re: How did teams go about picking an alliance?
Posted by Nate Smith, Student on team #74, Holland FIRST Robotics, from Holland High School and Haworth, Inc..
Posted on 2/28/99 7:39 AM MST
In Reply to: How did teams go about picking an alliance? posted by Mike Kulibaba on 2/27/99 8:05 PM MST:
We weren't in the top 8 ourselves, but I can tell you what I saw:
Almost all of the top 8 teams were running from pit to pit during about the last 5 or 6 seeding rounds, asking questions about the various machines. Unlike the rumors that were flying around about pre-arranged alliances and everything else, it seemed to be more the case that teams picked an ally that complimented their machine the best, a machine that was strong where their own was weak. In Chicago, rankings seemed to be VERY small of an issue, since team #45, who was in last place for almost the entire competition, was picked by the #8 team as an ally.
: I was just wondering if a team that came in the top 8 could tell me how you went about picking a partner for the elimination rounds, did you pick the high seed that didn't make it? Did you pick a team you knew? or did you pick a team that you knew was good even though they didn't show it in the qualifying rounds. I would also like to say, it looks like the first two regionals went very well and I"m sure that the others will be just as exciting.
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