Picking alliances

[newton418]

At Lone Star a couple teams came by our pit and talked to me, asking me to keep them in mind. I had no problem with this, but they were talking to the wrong person! As the driver and part of the pit crew, I had very little time to look at other robots, especially if they weren't allied with us, or they didn't really stand out. When our team met to make a list of potential alliance partners I was primarily there to keep things moving.
So, I don't know about other teams, but talking to our pit crew is a lost cause since we are the people on the team contributing the least to the alliance selection decisions.
However, the information flyers did come in handy on multiple occasions, especially the ones with detailed pictures, since our scouting pictures only got robots from one angle.