Alliance partner stories

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by cgredalertcc

you can't really have good or bad partners.

Sure you can. Every robot is different. Every drive team is different. Some are good, some are bad. Why do you think teams like 71, 254, and 25 go out and win every year? It's because they're good!

[Ericgehrken]

If you're on an alliance with two "sitting duck" robots then your robot should be self-sufficient enough so that it could pretty much win the match single- handedly with little offensive help pending the fellow alliance members do not attain any penalties.

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

Sure you can. Every robot is different. Every drive team is different. Some are good, some are bad. Why do you think teams like 71, 254, and 25 go out and win every year? It's because they're good!

Not meaning to be negative, but even those teams have made mistakes. Don't misinterpret me, they are great teams and I look up to all of them (Look at the teaser I just posted for some 60/254 inspiration), but I'm sure they have had some mistakes in matches or broken parts that lost a match for their partners. Bottom line is, even the greatest teams make mistakes every once in a while.

So, unless they try to lose it, there isn't really a bad alliance partner.

I'm sure 71's 2002 alliance wasn't that upset when the broke the wheel.

Or, in 2005 on Galileo (?) we lost a match with team 25 and they had been stuck in a tetra (we eventually nudged them free, but it took a while) and I admit i was upset. For some scoring miscalculation they replayed it and team 25 played awesome and we won it. In hindsight I shouldn't have been upset at them at all.