Best 3rd Pick in Newton

[Chris is me]

I personally if in a picking position would be slightly preferential to teams that I know our team works well with, like 2826 or 2470 or whomever we had a good qualifying match with. It's a shame neither of the above robots are on our field.

Of course, if a robot's outclassed, it's outclassed, but if there's two equally good robots (or roughly) at a scouting meeting I'm going to vote to put ahead the one that works better with us on the driver-to-driver level.

The main problem with finding a defensive bot is that in the qualifying matches, teams are going to want to show off their offense to keep their numbers up. Or perhaps a team will have good offense and never get to show off their defensive capabilities because they're being relied on for offenses in "weak" pairings.

Sometimes you just gotta know the team, the bot, the driver and pick a defensive bot that way. I'd say that's how 1675 got picked in Midwest Regional, everyone knows Kevin and they can play good D, even if they weren't showing it (though IIRC at Midwest their scoring wasn't working, so the issue I raised above doesn't apply).