Poor alliance distributions

[MasterZeus]

Did anyone else feel that the alliances were not set up very well at the buckeye regional? My team ( 211 ) was paired up with rookie or second year team in 5 of our 7 matches. We played against older teams in all 7 matches. I know you can't always judge a team by its age, but on average, older teams are more reliable. I also know of other Rochester teams that were screwed up. Some teams had the same partner 3 times out of the 7 matches.

I don't mean to sound like a whiner because we finished very poorly. We did not have the best robot ( our drivetrain kept dying ) but we should have done better. Our last 3 partners didn't even move, but we still won one of them and came real close in another one.

Congratulations to our neighbors, the sparkx ( 1126 ), for winning it all and the x-cats ( 191 ) for doing such a good job. Of all the robots I saw ( I am our coach so I didn't see all of them ) the bausch & lomb ( team 73 ) was the most impressive. It was the only robot I saw that could really stack. Great job and good luck at nationals.