How will Alliance captains pick ?

[Ginger Power]

Originally Posted by MrJohnston

In other words, the higher the level of competition, the more important center RC's become (and less important the unprocessed litter)... This will change the alliance selections significantly.

As the season progresses I could actually see litter processing become more important. At the Lake Superior and Northern Lights Regional I noticed nobody bothered processing litter until the playoffs and in particular the finals. On the Lake Superior field in the finals the blue alliance cleared one more piece of litter than the red alliance and ended up winning by a point. This could have been because of the more direct impact of the opposing alliance's score. It also could have been because teams realize that they are really evenly matched and need every advantage they can get. I think it's probably a little bit of both. Either way when teams get to the upper levels of competiton where there isn't much separating one alliance from the next I could see litter becoming that much more important.