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Originally Posted by remulasce
It's not a bad flier, but even that is too much self-promotion for a scout to take seriously.
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Our head coach said pretty much the same thing when he saw it. Our actual team policy is to do little to no self promotion at all. We scout others based on what happens on the field, not what they say they can do, and expect others to scout us the same way.
It seems that the gist of the thread is that aggressive marketing is at best ineffective, and at worst off-putting. So, (speaking as a relative newcomer to the FIRST scene) why do so many teams do it? It seems like it must have been effective for someone at some point in time, or the practice would have died out. Or is it a case of newcomers seeing people doing something that seems like a good idea, and copying them, even though it's not? (Like shouting "Robot!")