[EricH]

Originally Posted by sumadin

Wouldn't you prefer to be in the deepest division, as that way you could amass the strongest three-team alliance? I'm probably missing something, but I imagine that in the stacked division you should be able to produce a stronger alliance than in the weaker divisions, maybe due to the "stackedness" leaving the top alliances with strong second-round choices. What am I missing?

2005: Archimedes was stacked.
2007: Curie was stacked.
Neither made it past Einstein semis.

You're missing that the strong alliances will destroy each other. Always happens.