With the World Cup fast approaching, the three Lynfield teams are looking to firm up alliances in the next week or so. This will allow us and our alliance partners enough time to work together on strategy, complimentary autonomous programs and practicing with our new features
Interested teams can contact us on the emails below -
wait what?
so whoever is in the top 8 seeds will pick āeach otherā?
what if you are not the first seed and you get āsplit upā?
or is this something entirely different?
I believe alliance selection is going to work like this (at least within nz) - teams will pick alliance partners as usual (order determined by driver skills ranking), but there will be no penalty for declining. This means that if you have a a pre-formed alliance, you can decline being chosen, but are still available for selection. this is not official, just my understanding
This is for World Cup only.
For anyone else who is interested, this is because world cup is being played in alliances of two (similar to College rules).
Each robot/team is ranked by driver skills, and then we use the system described by NimbusII above to pick the alliances of two robots/teams.
Weāre then playing in two divisions of ten alliances each in normal qualification round format, which will re-rank all of the alliances.
Then the alliances are put into pool format (similar to the Rugby World Cup) according to their qualification round rankings, and the teams will play round robin against all the other teams in their pool.
Then the top x (I think itāll be 2) teams from each pool go through to an elimination bracket (similar to the Rugby World Cup) with an eventual winner of one alliance of two robots/teams.
Edit: I might be slightly wrong and of course the format might change a bit before World Cup, but this is my current understanding of whatās happening and Iād like to hope that it stays correct =P
Im surprised you didnt immediately want to ally with your own schools other teams. Being a non-Auckland team seems like such a disadvantage for us, I cant see us being picked by a good Auckland team because of our location =(. Oh well, we can but hope XD.
Although we think we could do well alliancing A with B or A with C, we figured its better to have more chances of winning in different alliances - 3 out of 20 instead of 2 out of 20 thats just our reasoningā¦ i dont know how logical it is
I suppose that makes sense, but if you thought you could make a STRONGER team by alliancing with your other teams, it would probably make more sense to do that. Then again, considering how many strong robots there have been this year, I suppose your reasoning is very valid.
Exceptā¦ us, and im sure most other teams dont rank their choices by driver skillsā¦ but it is a good āremember we are hereā kinda thing though for out of town teams
We would be 2nd, but that was with an old robotā¦ but i cant find the video to submit D: ahh well, new robot should do better anyway, hopefully two more points better than the last one so we can be top of the list - which is here if you didnt know http://vexrobotics.co.nz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=106&Itemid=89
