Winning a Match vs. Winning Strategically

[FIMAlumni]

Kinda on the same topic. At a competition my team was attending there were 4 dominate robots at the event. We were ranked first, another was ranked 2, and the other 2 were out of the top 8. We concluded that the best robot that fit out strategy was out of the top 8, but also we would have to face a very tough alliance in the finals as the number 2 seed would pick the other dominate robot. I considered picking the slightly weaker second seed in order to split up the other two dominate robots (who would join the second and third alliance). Was I picking to create the best alliance? no. Was I picking to win the event? yes. Unfortunately the second seed did not want to play with us anyway so we ended up the highest ranked by our scouting anyway.