[Andrew Schreiber]

My personal opinion, #1 seed takes whoever they want. If you want to work with Team A you better seed high enough to ensure you get them. Some teams may be cool with your request but many will ignore it.

Some people will talk to you ahead of time about selecting you. More often it is the other way around, teams ask you to select them. The former is logical, the latter is just irritating. Coming to us 1 hour before and giving us a 2 page flier about your robot saying, "You should pick us" should be avoided. If your robot showed what your flier says and it is what I need then I would pick you. If not, then I won't. There is a pretty good chance that the decision has already been made.

Now, there are times (GLR 2008) where the #1 seed will choose people they know will say no to them in order to lock them out of picking each other. Some people claim it is "un-GP" but it is a legal strategy.