The seed order will strictly be determined by the random match scheduling*. How many times will the “top” teams (118, 148, 624, 1477, 2848 the list goes on) face each other? During these matches, who are the other members of those alliances (will one “top” team face 2 at once, or have under-performing teammates?). I personally think that** no team at Dallas will go undefeated. The field is very thoroughly stacked with many high level teams, and a very healthy amount of good, competitive teams that may hit a home run and take it.
*Well duh, but seriously, we have all been there.
**Barring some game-breaking strategy or loophole or something.
No win-loss this season so the times teams “play each other” means nothing. The amount of times “top teams” play together might affect it but a team still has to consistently score high to seed high.
This regional is one of the ones I’m looking forward to following most this year. Of course it’s because I know a lot of the teams much better than in other parts of the country and I’m biased, but playoffs sure look to be pretty competitive.
Alamo a few years back had the first triple balance in the country. What could Dallas be the first to do? RC+pool noodle on a stack of 6? Use all the human player totes? use all the landfill totes? Stack all the RCs (both alliances and the step)?
Being a team from Texas going to a Texas regional I never really thought about the need for a snow plan.
DISD has been shut down for 2 days and I don’t think it’s looking good for having access to our build space or robot tomorrow. This might get interesting.
Any other Dallas teams worried about freeing their robots from lock-up?