IRI Alliances

[Brian Maher]

1) 2056 118 33 4587 (W)
2) 1114 195 225 1405 (F)
3) 3620 67 3683 5254 (SF)
4) 1619 1241 133 868 (SF)
5) 217 2451 494 3641 (QF)
6) 2481 330 3824 1640 (QF)
7) 45 179 1806 233 (QF)
8) 2771 16 1024 1023 (QF)

No declines.

[nirmatt_1690]

waiting for 300+ scores .

[CTbiker105]

That's a beefy #1 alliance. Playoffs will be something to watch.

[Henrique Schmit]

Originally Posted by CTbiker105

That's a beefy #1 alliance. Playoffs will be something to watch.

They were able to get 3 really strong shooters in, I wouldn't have expected 33 to be picked so late

[edesirim]

All of those top four alliances look pretty beefy, but it's IRI. Anything can happen!

[jSchnitz]

6) 2481 330 3824 1640

I expect this alliance to go far. 2/3 of the world champion alliance is pretty scary. And 3824 is not to be overlooked - they won the Smoky Mountain Regional with 2481 this year. With both 330 and 3824 having played lots with 2481, this alliance will be extremely well-coordinated and may take opponents by surprise.

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by nirmatt_1690

waiting for 300+ scores .

That may have been the biggest disappointment from IRI this year. I really thought 300 would be surpassed.

[wilsonmw04]

Originally Posted by jSchnitz

1/2 of the world champion alliance is pretty scary.

I corrected that for you.

[HolyLandBrand]

Am I the only one surprised that 20, 27, 910, 2052, and 3538 didn't get picked for IRI elims? (especially considering that 2 of these teams appeared on Einstein this year)

Nevertheless, it was fun watching the livestream. Congrats to 2056, 118, 33, and 4587 for winning IRI this year.

[Kevin Leonard]

Originally Posted by HolyLandBrand

Am I the only one surprised that 20, 27, 910, 2052, and 3538 didn't get picked for IRI elims? (especially considering that 2 of these teams appeared on Einstein this year)

Nevertheless, it was fun watching the livestream. Congrats to 2056, 118, 33, and 4587 for winning IRI this year.

There were a ton of phenomenal teams that didn't play in eliminations. 4039, 5460, 1718, 1511, 71, 1058, 624, 2338, 1746 and 2502 were all eliminations-worthy teams as well.
Picking teams at IRI is difficult, because there are so many amazing options.

[mwmac]

Originally Posted by HolyLandBrand

Am I the only one surprised that 20, 27, 910, 2052, and 3538 didn't get picked for IRI elims? (especially considering that 2 of these teams appeared on Einstein this year)

No you are not...

[Clayton Yocom]

So that was ... fun. 45 was a more than a bit surprised that we would be picking (we didn't have scouts and at lunch on Saturday we were like "oh, we should create a picklist"). I'm really proud of the drive team for doing an awesome job during qualifying matches. Elims were tough, but I'm not sure there was ever much of a chance. The first match would've been 214 to 260 if we were fully on the batter, and the second match was we ran the same strategy with different robots and that didn't work out as well as we thought it would have. In retrospect, would we have done things differently? I think our picks were the most competitive we could have done. We could have had a silly alliance, maybe a return of the dream team would've been in order (1024,1747,45) with 461 or 71 as the 4th. However, I think we can go home happy with the performance we displayed out there.

[TDav540]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

That may have been the biggest disappointment from IRI this year. I really thought 300 would be surpassed.

We've still got Chezy Champs. Remember that 254, 1241, 1731 and 708 put up 289 in the Newton semis in the match they got red carded. Put a few of those west coast teams together and you never know.

[jajabinx124]

Originally Posted by Kevin Leonard

Picking teams at IRI is difficult, because there are so many amazing options.

That and I don't think many teams take scouting seriously as they do during the actual season. This allows for many teams to be overlooked IMO and welcomes some teams picking based on familiarity and bias.

[TDav540]

Originally Posted by jajabinx124

That and I don't think many teams take scouting seriously as they do during the actual season. This allows for many teams to be overlooked IMO and welcomes some teams picking based on familiarity and bias.

+1