Team Update: Drive Team Placement in Playoffs

[MrTechCenter]

Originally Posted by Caleb Sykes

I really like the set positions. The alliance captain's coach should be managing the entire alliance, and this is most easily done from the center station. Additionally, since the playoff schedule is already known (5.4.4), queuers won't have to be scrambling so much to tell teams that their match is coming up and which alliance station each team owns.

I don't really like that the higher alliance is red, since red is at a disadvantage when placing robots for autonomous. At lower levels, this effect will be negligible, but I could see it giving blue a leg-up at higher level competitions.

I still don't understand why the order of placement would matter. But going back to the point, I like that the alliance captain gets the center driver station for easy communication, but this would have made more sense in Aerial Assist. For Recycle Rush, the position of your driver station could very well effect your strategy, and having the stations assigned makes it rather tough.