Chief Delphi - What can we do to get noticed

I do commend you guys for doing a very good job at Cleveland. I was on the scouting team for 254, the Cheesy Poofs, and I had the pleasure of scouting the specs of your team's robot and keeping track of your matches. IMHO...That wood looks good! It's chamfered, doesn't need to be painted, giving it a more natural and ultimately more refined look. And your performance on the field was pretty good too.

From scouting experience, teams don't take into account the materials a robot uses, except for stuff like if if it's for a critical part that has to resist stress (e.g. for a part that'll get bumped a lot, there's a difference: metal and wood are usually sturdier than thinner plexi/lexan and foam. We all saw the matches where foam armor and funnoodle scraps ended up lying on the field afterwards...:D )

Elimination picking has to do more with complementary abilities. The top seeds needed to pick the teams that would best complement their abilities, and most of them were ball+goal and two-goal teams. Therefore they probably wouldn't have needed a second two-goal team and instead opted for a ball team, or got a goal bot that had braking ability or a great drive sytem. Promotion comes in when teams need to advertise the aspects of their robot that may not be obvious. If you looked at 872 (another great robot), you couldn't tell at first that they had brakes to clamp them down in place after they grab a goal. But when we came over to ask them about their robot, we noticed it. They seeded high, but if they hadn't, and a picking team didn't know they could brake, then that's where promotion would have helped.

But feel proud of what your accomplishments in Cleveland, and I wish you the best of luck in your next competiton. Keep up the great work, and I hope to see you guys again in the future.