Alliance picks declined

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Originally Posted by Jay O'Donnell

I've been wondering about this decline for a while. Not sure why 133 wouldn't want 319.

The end of qualifications at Reading were quite crazy. After our last match really expected BERT to be the number one seed. In their last match they needed three ranking points and we thought they would surely achieve it. However in a round about way they ended up in a situation where they were going for a capture without a breach. Unfortunately for them, one of their alliance partners rolled off the batter and they only got two ranking points, leaving them in third place rather than first.

From what I heard they thought that SMART would make a better complement to their robot, and denied our pick (maybe assuming we'd pick 4905 and Smart would be available for them... Purely speculation). We opted to go with 1058 and then Smart was picked up by 4905.

This resulted in a very evenly balanced set of elimination rounds as 1, 2, and 3 each went on to form their own alliance. We would have loved to team up with BERT but it made for a great afternoon nonetheless.