[Chinmay]

Next time, perhaps you should do your scouting and figure out if a team is in fact broken. If they are, and you think they'd be a good pick, follow up and see if they can be fixed. If not, don't take the chance and pick them. Since when do the scouts on your team take advice from other teams? I'd say it was a huge oversight by your teams alliance captain (you) and the alliance captains of the other alliances who you mention also made a similar mistake.

Team 217, thanks for making it publicly known that you guys were broken. It would have been unfair to the team selecting you for you to keep that hidden from them as they would have been your potential alliance mates. I would have done the same thing, and expected others to do the same for me. I've chosen broken roots before. Sometimes it pans out, other times it doesn't. That's the "luck" part of FRC that makes Elims so exciting

As for the anonymous thing... Well Eric clarified that.