[Akash Rastogi]

One thing I think we forgot to touch on: selling your team to the top 8. There's a line between trying to talk to a team about alliance selection, and straight up bugging them about it.

Do not try to suck up in a blatantly obvious way or obnoxiously. Teams absolutely dislike that. As Chris mentioned before, try to have an honest conversation with the teams who are in the top 15 at the end of qualifications. Tell them what type of asset you think you can be. Do NOT kid yourself by giving them farfetched data, the top teams scout and know when you are BSing them (sorry couldn't think of a better term). Know your own team's real positives and negatives.

Things you can do during competition to help you get picked:
1) Fix any problems ASAP after they occur.
2) Document your failures and fixes in a journal in the pit.
3) Make sure you have someone ready to speak to other teams when they come to your pit. This is very important because teams can get annoyed if you do not have someone ready to communicate with them to talk strategy or about a match.
4) Be honest. Scout your own team and get data about your team from other good scouting teams.
5) Avoid making simple rule errors (penalties, coaches touching controls by accident, etc.)
6) Be cooperative.

Other than that, I'm sure the other EWCP guys have more to add along with Jim and Isaac.