Rookie Teams in Elims

[ErikEdhlund]

This really is an issue that comes up each year. It really comes down to who is scouting and exactly what they are looking for in Alliance partners. As someone had pointed out earlier, it really depends on who is scouting and what do they need to take home the win. For anyone who was watching the Minnesota North Star Regional, we had decided to pick rookie team 4226 to be our second pick due to their ability to play defense, tilt the alliance bridge, and balance consistently. They had no ability to score outside of balancing, but they were able to do exactly what we wanted since we already had 2 strong scoring robots. We had looked for the team that would best fit our strategy and it really paid off. The key thing that everyone should really learn is that the first pick is always the easiest to figure out, it is that second one that could make a good alliance the winning alliance.