[EricH]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

Make sure you watch the videos (not sure what match numbers, will look up later) of one of the greatest upsets in FIRST history in that Rhode Warriors archive, where the heavily favored alliance of 60, 33, and 1241 were defeated by the #8 alliance (pre-serpentine era) featuring 121 in the quarters.

Archimedes QFs. 60 and company were #1.

That particular selection was interesting, because there were 4 unbeaten teams. As I recall, #1 (60) picked 33, #2 picked 71 (or was 71, I forget), and #3 (571) picked #4 (330). Incidentally, this was the last year before the serpentine draft.

As for strategy, about half a dozen teams nationwide figured out that if you could get on the bar first, you could deny your opponents for the entire match. Two of them also figured out how to negate any doubler attempts. A different team went on to Einstein. Of course, this strategy led to an obvious disadvantage: a 2v1 on the floor.