Predictions Week 1: Assisted Take-Off

[Racer26]

GTR-West is going to be a great show. A lot of Ontario's heavy-hitters are in attendance (but not our heaviest two).

Its really unfortunate what's had to happen with its venue, and not allowing spectators or more than 30 members per team. GTR-West at this venue is geographically the closest event to around 50 teams.

It is guaranteed to mark the first time that a regional in Ontario didn't count either 1114 or 2056 or both as one of its regional champions since the 2005 Waterloo Regional.

Which 3 will it be? I have NO IDEA how to predict, even having seen video of many of the robots in attendance. Aerial Assist is a game so different to past FRC games. There really does seem to be a pretty hard ceiling on robot performance. All of the top and second tier teams I've seen reveal videos for are all showing fairly similar capabilities. I haven't seen any robots that I would say are going to play this game dramatically better than others. It's going to come down to strategy and driver practice.

I think we are going to see a lot more lower seeded alliances winning events this year because of this. It's going to be much easier to build a #2-6 alliance that can hang with the #1 this year than many in recent memory.