Picking Teams in Elimination Rounds

[Ken Streeter]

Originally Posted by iCurtis

... make sure you have a strategy when you make your list. We knew we wanted robots capable of certain things, and we picked robots capable of achieving those ends.

The above comment was absolutely true at yesterday's BAE GSR -- the real strength of the 1276 alliance was not that any one robot on the alliance was way above the rest of the field, but that the three allied teams (1276, 133, and 1519) had complementary abilities. From the very first quarterfinal match in which we played, it was evident that 1276 did a great job choosing the eventual winning alliance. We were thankful to be part of it, and were glad to be teamed with 1276 and 133, each of which we had been teamed with at tournaments in "Triple Play."