Picking alliances

[Ken Loyd]

"I love the responses I'm getting, kudos to the CD community out there, but I still have one huge dillema with "selling" our own team:
the draft system is built the way it is for a reason, if my team tries to "sell" our team to another team that might've picked a better robot, we are simply screwing that alliance over."

You are not "screwing that alliance over." I think most teams look for partners who compliment their own robots. When teams try to sell themselves to us, we try to be honest with them. You can tell a team with two wheel drive and casters in the front that you are looking for a robot with a little more power. You can tell a robot without an arm that you are looking for a hanging robot. The key is to tell the selling robot NICELY!

Keep on selling yourself but don't be disappointed if you are not selected. Think of the fun you had at the regional. When we do not get selected, we go sit near a team we know and cheer with them. It never hurts to start selling a year early!

Ken