So by some miracle, we wound up moving from 12th seed to become the 8th alliance captain. We picked 1102 and 801–great partners, even as varying gremlins kept us from executing to our full potential against the 1251/1626/1758 alliance. Boy, that was fun!
(By the way, the hand gesture 1102 is making spells out just that–1-1-0-2.)