Choosing a Strategy For an Alliance

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Originally Posted by CalTran

I like the idea of a strategic idea, but being accurate in a controlled environment and being accurate while driving on the field under pressure are two very different things. Also, how short would you keep the video? Even if you only kept it down to 30 seconds, that's still almost a half hour of videos (Assuming each team at a competition "submitted" one) you would have to find time to watch, and find a method to keep up with who is show casing well and who isn't.

In 2012 I believe we did this to help convince teams to let us do the co-op balance. We just put it on an iPad and showed it to our alliance partners before each match. Then, once we got their approval to do the balance, we figured out which opponent we were going to balance with and showed it to them (we had a special procedure that they had to follow since we used our stingers for double balances, and the video helped us explain).

Even if all 3 alliance partners had a 1 minute video (which is fairly unlikely), the drive teams would still probably have enough time to watch them.