(Seemingly) Irrational alliance selection decisions?

[Dominick Ferone]

Originally Posted by Bluman56

If you come again next year, you'll likely see the same kind of irrational picking. Apart from a few (emphasis on few) teams, NYC historically has one of the worst scouting collectives of any regional. It's really fun to observe year after year. I don't know if it's just me but there seems to be a huge disconnect between many (of course not all) NYC teams and the rest of FIRST. I sometimes wonder about how many of our teams even know of the concept of districts?

I don't mean to sidetrack the thread, I just enjoy a little quip on the NYC regional every once in a while.

Oh I know, I've been to the NYC regional for 12,13,and now 16
2013, we were sure we wouldn't get picked and somehow we went to the semis, losing the first match due to field error and the second by a point with a weird alliance to say the least.