What happened in Curie???

[kjohnson]

Originally Posted by Phoenix Spud

Why weren't teams seeded 10-28 picked? And how come the top 8 teams did not pick each other? I know that there were two declines, but it seems really weird!

Originally Posted by Jimmy K

Same thing happened in Archimedes except only one decline. We were stuck playing the #1 Alliance, and we got owned.

I encountered the same thing in Newton in 2005. We seeded 8th and led our own alliance, and I don't remember there being any declines. We went on to get SPANKED by the #1 alliance with 330 at the helm.

[Bob Steele]

As a third year team, Skunkworks was proud to compete on Curie and had a great time this weekend. Being from so far away (Seattle) we got to compete with and against some great teams.. 217, 399, 68, 341, 254 gosh there are just too many to mention.. just being on the field with you was a treat for us..we hope we always helped our alliances no matter what we were asked to do on the field.

Of course we were disappointed in not being picked from the 12th position but who wouldn't be, no matter what position they ended up in?

The teams that picked earned the right to make whatever choices they wanted to make. As I was looking at our database I was just checking off them right down the line... some were missed.... most weren't. In our regionals this year we were seeded 19th and 34th and were the first pick of the #1 Alliance both times.

I congratulate all of the great teams on Curie for picking great alliances and going out and playing exciting matches. You earned it and we had a great representative on Einstein...

Paul's comments about the serpentine draft should be noted by everyone. With the kind of quality exhibited at CMP, one has to think of the alliance picking more like a "Draft" Do you want the #1 and the #16 pick ? Or do you want the #7 and #10 picks?? This is an excellent bit of knowledge that we all should pay heed to.

Last year we seeded 5th on Galileo and picked our own alliance. We were one of those teams that got lucky and had matches that put us in that position. We didn't fool ourselves into thinking we were the 5th best team that year.

This year we were much better and much more competitive. Next year we will even be better. You will too!!

Thank you everyone for making this a great CMP for us.



hmmm now back to work... the 2010 season has already begun..