Serpentine Draft

[Citrus Dad]

Originally Posted by themccannman

I've been very satisfied with the pool of second picks we get to draft from every time we're first seed. The 24th pick is often a robot that's at the top of my second pick list. I've never ever had to work on a draft list where our second pick list didn't consist of robots that would love to have on our alliance. The situation may be different at districts, but in my experience we've always had a great array of robots available for second picks, and we often get our top picks because other teams over look them.

I'd like to second this point - we were extremely happy to have 4161 available at IER, and 766 at Sacramento, and of course they were each the 24th pick. They fit perfectly into our alliance strategy. And we would have been almost as happy with the next available pick on our draft list at both events. There's another thread from a rookie team wondering why they didn't get picked at an event, and they looked like a perfectly good choice. I don't think the 24th pick is a curse if a top team is well prepared, even this year.