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Dr Theta,
Scouting can not be understated at competition. The rankings are almost never the best metric to go off of when it comes down to alliance selection, especially in years that the GDC feels like experimenting with the seeding algorithm.
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I couldn't agree more. I feel like we had a very good robot that had a very nice and consistent hybrid mode along with a average teleop, but we were told that we had the best bridge manipulator and it was also one of the simplest. When we went into the alliance selections, we thought we wouldn't get picked because of or low ranking of 17th but we were told that we had a high chance due to the fact that we had the most bridge points at 120pts. We found out that teams had been scouting us like no other. But when the eliminations came down to our matches, we never actually used our bridge manipulator, or our hybrid mode.(well we used our hybrid but we didn't have time to tweak it so that we could have another robot drive in front of us. Now many probably are trying to see what im getting at, but when it came for us to use what we had been so good at the entire weekend, we only really used our programming which allowed us to balance the double bridge with just a push of a button. showing that it doesnt take the mechanical to show what it takes but it takes the programming that people find to be useful and also i would like to point out that we ended up getting 3rd place.