How will Alliance captains pick ?

[MooreteP]

Originally Posted by donnie99

The way our team discussed this problem at the beginning of the year was different because of the new way the playoffs are held. With the top four teams in the quarterfinals and top 2 from the semifinals advancing, then alliances that maximize their own scoring while limiting the scoring of as many other alliances as they can, would be the ones to advance. With this in mind, the RC's on the step are the most important part to this strategy.

My point is that the RC's being taken off the step can make or break an alliance's run in the playoffs.

Your excellent strategy in the Playoffs is the model this year.
237 grabbed the RCs in autonomous, then 558 filled them with noodles and set them aside to put on whatever stacks you could make with 4557.
Had your alliance been more adept at acquisition and able to make higher stacks, you would have easily won Waterbury. (4th seed)
I expect to see you in Worcester and St. Louis.


As far as this thread goes, I submit that the top alliances will grab an RC, human player loading, capable of 5-6 tote stacks with an RC on top.
Most bang for the buck in qualifications.

The first pick should be a can grabber, the quickest will only get two in the finals, but with their 3x value, it's enough to multiply the value of any stacks, and as long as each alliance gets two, they've swapped queens. You need to get two ASAP.

I believe that the second pick is the most important. This is where scouting this year is quite difficult.
- Co-opertition points will skew the numbers and a modest stacking Robot that is consistently able to gain co-opertition with the other alliance will seed high.
This is worth little in the Playoff matches.
- Do you go for a hybrid? The warehouse worker that can do everything, but nothing well?
- Are you in a deep Regional (50-60 teams) or a shallow District (30-40 teams)?
- The seeding order may play strong this year. I think as the season progresses we will might see more 5-8 seeds winning Regional/Districts.
- By Einstein........

Don't even want to touch the statistical randomness of those $@#$@#$@#$@# noodles.

I was so worried about this game last week. Not anymore.