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Alliance Selection

The pre-playoff process where the top-seeded teams take turns inviting other teams to form playoff alliances.

also calledAlliance draftSelection ceremony

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where you actually meet Alliance Selection

Alliance selection happens on the field, on camera, in a few minutes — but the decision was made the night before over scouting data. If you are picking, you need a picklist you trust and a first pick who complements you rather than duplicates you. If you are hoping to be picked, a reputation for showing up working every single match beats a high peak score.

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Scouting & Strategy
Strategy: Picklists, Alliance Selection, and Match Play

Alliance Selection at the Event

Alliance selection is a live, serpentine draft of 8 alliances governed by exact rules, including a pick timer and decline procedures.open Getting Started with FRC
Advanced Techniques & Case Studies

Data-Driven Strategy: Scouting, EPA/OPR, and Alliance Selection

Turn match data into pick-lists using scouting, Statbotics EPA, and The Blue Alliance to win alliance selection.open Scouting & Strategy
Strategy: Picklists, Alliance Selection, and Match Play

Building a Picklist

A picklist is an ordered ranking of the teams you most want as alliance partners, built from scouting plus public analytics.open

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Data & Scouting

Picklist

A ranked list of teams an alliance captain uses to decide whom to invite during alliance selection.

Data & Scouting

Scouting

Systematically collecting data on robots' performance to inform strategy and alliance-selection decisions.

Data & Scouting

OPR

Offensive Power Rating — a calculated estimate of a team's average scoring contribution, derived from match results.

Competition & Game

Teleoperated

The main portion of a match where drivers control the robot from the alliance station.

Alliance Selection is one of 70 entries in the catalogue. The guides are where these words get used in order, instead of one at a time.

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