[roboticWanderor]

I saw an alliance consisting of a one "super scorer" and two, essentially offensive linebackers to play some serious defense work pretty well. The serpentine alliance selection pretty much limits an alliance to two effective scorers, even then, the scoring robots can be divided and conquered by an aggressive defense.

To me an ideal alliance consists of a serious defensive robot, another defensive robot capable of running super cells, and one offensive flagship robot to rack up the big points. The defensive robots play a much more effective counter-defense, keeping the flagship out of game breaking pins, and running empties for those oh so essential super cells.