How will Alliance captains pick ?

[MrJohnston]

Originally Posted by Ginger Power

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.

At higher levels, I think you are going to see more litter put into RC's and, therefore, less unprocessed litter available... I would also suggest that, as we are seeing stronger alliances, teleop scores will skyrocket (over 200), and dwarfing the maximum of 40 unprocessed litter points (28 points if three noodles are stunk into RC's)... And rarely will teams get 4 pts. for each available piece of litter - most will end up in the landfill for 1 point.... Yes, in close matches the litter will matter, but the first (and most important) battle will be over who is going to make the most stacks with the center RC's.