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Originally Posted by dtengineering
I have also seen teams misread an alliance number and accidentally select a team they never really meant to pick. (Or have I just read about that on CD? My memory is going... it might just be an urban legend that I have incorporated in to my memory bank somehow.)
And I have seen teams pick alliance partners that made no sense to ME, at the time, but made perfect sense to them. Heck... I've seen that in Atlanta... and have to admit that the team made a pretty good choice regardless of what I initially thought.
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I think Jason's comments are spot on.
I have thought "What are they thinking?!" during alliance selection only to be eliminated by that alliance. Funny how that works...
It seems that every year an Alliance Captain or two in New Hampshire will select a team that isn't at the event. I'm pretty sure 233 has been offered a spot in the BAE eliminations at least twice in recent years, impressive for a team that has never attended the regional!
In 2006 we were fortunate enough to end up an alliance captain and select the team (133) that mentored us in 2004. We wound up winning the event along with 1519 and qualifying for Atlanta. It was pretty special to both qualify for Atlanta with our mentoring team, but their robot certainly pulled its own weight!