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Originally Posted by EricH
Or if the first seed is smart, they can break up alliances before they are made. Let's say that 1114 and 217 are in the same division. #1 seed is, say, a not-so-good team. 1114 is third and 217 is fifth (random seeds). If that team is smart, they will: pick 217, then pick 1114. Note: only do this if you know both will decline...Now, 1114 and 217 CAN'T team up, and so both get a less-good alliance. They may even face each other at some point.
It all depends who is first seed. At L.A., with two good hurdlers and about three or four less-good ones, the first seed was one of the good hurdlers and picked the other. Game over.
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I like the way you think- we always talk about hypothetical situations like this before alliance selections.
And your story about L.A. sounds a lot like what we saw in Connecticut- of four or five really good hurdling robots, two of them seeded in 1st and 2nd. When seed 1 picked seed 2, and none of the other good hurdlers ended up paired with one another, alliances 2-8 were a little disadvantaged.