Observation about Selecting Alliances

[Jeremiah Johnson]

As the "strategy pro", I was a major contributor in picking our alliances at Nationals. Our first pick was good robot that we had worked with before and actually decimated our opponents. The second pick was a little shaky. Of course, I was the one to push for them. They had won a regional already and had a pretty good robot. And of course, the choices were limited. I didn't know at the time that they could be easily pushed around. O well, there is always next year. Anyways, my mentors said that the best resource is a person who could remember many aspects of the robots in consideration. It is even better than actual scouting data. Scouting data is thrown out the window when it comes to elimination rounds.