Pre season competition alliance

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by thefro526

IMO, I think this year we're going to see a lot of mid-numbered alliances winning. Alliances 3,4,5,6 will have much better selections than 1 or 2. This is not the year you want to drag a robot to victory.

People say that every year. And frankly, while it is much more common in the serpentine era, 50% of the time the #1 still wins at the regional level.

At the Championship level, the playing field has been considerably leveled and the #1 does have less success in the serpentine era. Whether that's because of the 3rd partner or purely because of 85 teams and 7 matches not yielding accurate rankings is a debate for another time.