First seed alliance captain: Low Bar or not?

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Alpha Beta

Why do so many top teams end up going low?

1. Powerhouses weren't going to blame the lack of a breach on a random alliance partners getting irrevocably stuck on a defense. They assumed it would happen and wanted to make sure they could still do the other 4. (By themselves if necessary.)
2. Class C defenses are a time suck. In eliminations top alliances are still skipping them, making low bar a faster option if capable.

One of the two non-low-bar captains made a pretty decent living doing a Class C in AUTO(and in teleop). And showed Class A ability in elims, too.

1197 designed to be capable of handling anything that isn't low bar. Part of that was figuring out that with everybody else going low, we didn't need to!

[BenjiSG]

Team 4564 Orange Chaos was the first seed alliance captain at the WPI NE District Qualifier, and they were low bar-capable sure enough.

[Boltman]

CVR...1678 is low bar limbo bot as captain #1

[kannr0604]

#7 seed/winner and alliance captain 839 at NE WPI District event is low bar, and the first seeded was 4564 Orange Chaos and they were low bar as well and made it to Semi-finals.

[CalTran]

2481 went an astounding sixteen match undefeated streak without ever going under the low bar at Illinois

[Anthony Galea]

1481 at Center Line was low-bar capable

[M217]

359 was low-bar capable at Tech Valley, although they didn't really use it so much. Incidentally, so were, I believe, all of the top 8 seeded machines.

[Cam877]

As for MAR this week, both 11(Chestnut hill) and 2590(Seneca) are both low bar capable.

[mmorauske]

FIM St Joseph event. #1 seed 2767 was low bar capable and their first pick, #2 seed 3620 was as well.

[yonip]

CHS Hampton Roads event #1 seed 2363 was low bar capable, I believe

[Joe Ross]

973 was #2 seed at Ventura, and is a tall robot. They were only 5 autonomous points from being #1 seed. #1 seed was low bar.

[Hikel team 319]

319 is a low bar bot. They were number one seed and event winner at both North Shore and UNH District events.

[Woolly]

1806 has low bar capability and was the #1 seed and winner at Oklahoma.

[JedG]

4039, the number one seed at Buckeye was a low bar bot.

[Joe Ross]

3476 is not low bar capable and was first seed alliance captain at Orange County.