Thread: Our Ideal Alliance Partners
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that's a good concern
Posted by Ken Leung at 1/31/2001 10:35 PM EST


Student on team #192, Gunn Robotics Team, from Henry M. Gunn Senior High School.


In Reply to: it gets worse for the general robots
Posted by Joe Ross on 1/31/2001 7:24 PM EST:



In the finals, they are going to pair up #1 with #4, #2 and #5... And it is probable in that situation for two special robots with the same function got paired together. So what will happen is the pool of those special robot out there will be smaller, while in that specific alliance, they won't need two robot that do the same thing. One of the two will end up as a backup machine, while other alliance might not be able to draft that kind of special robot, and end up doing much worse.

From right now, though, there is no telling how are the alliance going to be, mainly we still don't know what other teams are going to do out there. (Although I have a feeling that too much robot will be balancer)
But one thing I can conclude is that this year's alliances are not going to be even in the finals, and even more chaotic in the qualifying rounds.

By the way, in regional, the teams know each other really well, so the drafting is actually base on performance. That's different than last year's nationals where there drafting was more based on the friendship with other teams and/or how much a team sticks out among every other teams in the pit area. But of course this year with the division that's a different story.

-Ken Leung
ALL for perfect alliance and not individual robots



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