Is alliance selection usually this bad?

[Nuttyman54]

One thing that makes alliance selections particularly difficult this year is the need to assemble an alliance which can effectively play every aspect of the game. Most teams, even if they're unprepared, understand that they're looking for robots which "do it all". Typically those teams will either decline a pick from the types of teams who are unprepared to make the selection, or there aren't any left by the time they get to make their pick.

I believe this is also the reason for the large number of declines. Teams who "shouldn't" be in the top 8, or should but are unprepared, are picking teams who they perceive as "Good" without giving full consideration to whether the teams complement each other. A team with great tube scoring but no minibot and no ubertube that ends up top 8 will probably be declined by a team who also doesn't have a minibot, because they know it will put them at a disadvantage.