Pre season competition alliance

After seeing a ton of bots, what alliance do u think will win week 1. My bet: 1 turret and 2 dumpers.

2 dumpers and 1 box on wheels with the capability to hold most if not all the balls…

Either

1.)Power dumper
2.)Power dumper
3.)Collector/Empty Cell specialist/Defensive Specialist

or

1.)Shooter
2.)Power dumper
3.)Collector/Empty Cell specialist/Defensive Specialist

Now this is what I think will be good for regionals, championship is a whole different story.

its gonna be three dumpers, or two shooters and a dumper:D

two shooters and a dumper at champ maybe but no way in week one will shooters be powerful enough to have 2 of them on an alliance…

2 dumpers and 1 shooter.
1 will have a propeller.
all 3 will pick up from the floor.

2 Shooters/Dumpers, doesn’t really matter
1 Bot that plays well with others

We’re only talking about week 1 here

My idea of a perfect alliance for regionals would be two amazing scorers. This can be a combination of dumper and shooter or two shooters or two dumpers. I believe the strongest alliance would have one shooter and one dumper, both able to fill a goal in one go. The third robot just needs to have excellent drivers, nothing else. With lower amounts of scoring talent at regionals, alliance captains should carefully consider better drivers for a third robot rather than another scoring machine. Scoring capabilities for the third robot would be nice, but I don’t think we will see that sort of alliance until Champs. The third robot would be used for strategic pinning and would protect the scorers of the alliances trailers while they are scoring. This is my prediction for the perfect regional alliance. It will be interesting to see the different strategies that develop along the way and how different types of robots will be used.

As far as standard regionals go, I think you have:

1 good shooter
1 good dumper
1 average ball manipulator with a good PS/ good drivetrain

2 dumpers and 1 shooter.
1 will have a propeller.
all 3 will pick up from the floor.

I agree with the prop assesment (I would though, because we have a prop)

And I think that one of the final alliances on Einstein will be:

Super power dumper
Super shooter
Decent ball manipulator with a prop that can just bulldoze through people

We’ll see

I don’t think that 1 will have a prop just because I don’t see lots of teams using a propeller. I agree that they will pick up from the the floor though, for now at least…

The alliance with 3 good members aka the 3-5 alliances.

Team #'s:
148, 85, 107

It’s up to you guys to determine what I mean. :stuck_out_tongue:

For week one:

  1. Alexander Ovechkin
  2. Mike Green
  3. Sean Avery (Donald Brashear or Claude Lemieux also work) with a good human player.

Alternate alliance:

  1. Pavel Datsyuk (Henrik Zetterberg if unavailable)
  2. Zach Parise
  3. Mark Streit

i think two shooter bots and one defense/runner to run around and toy with the other hot shooters for the other alliance.

We really like 85 and 107, but don’t think a week 1 victory is in the cards for us.

“My ideal alliance would be 2 robots that can just score like crazy, each able to fill a goal in 2 seconds. The 3rd robot would be able to just pin everyone on the other team in the corner and hold them for the whole match. Human players able to consistently score from over 1/2 court, and it would be nice if the team colors of the 3 teams matched”

You can dream cant you?

But in all honesty, you are not necessarily going to have robots at the 1st week regionals capable of all out domination, and forming an ultimate alliance.

In my experience, 1st week regionals require 2 robots that are very ahead of the curve and thats about it to win. I’ve seen a regional final where 1 of the robots on the winning alliance did not move for the entire match. Uniting 2 teams decently ahead of the curve, and adding a 3rd robot that can at least drive with its head on straight will win a week 1 comp.

I say one power dumper, one shooter, a fridge bot (to store balls), and someone from the NBA would definitly win.:smiley:

An alliance captain who knows what’s up, a solid first pick to back it up, and a sufficient scouting system to get the diamond in the rough for the 3rd pick.

I’m betting on two high volume robots (dumpers or very fast shooters), and a third partner with average scoring ability, but high manuverability, with a very skilled human player and a very skilled drive team.

1 shooter, 1 dumper, and 1 good PS with a good empty/supercell manipulating robot

i’m going with for week 1, a couple dumpers and a team with a BA human player…