[Canon reeves]

Alot of people fail to see the big picture, including pretty much all of the team except me. They don't realize that winning every match isn't as important as you think because you will get paired with the worst possible alliances against the best teams, it happens. But whats important is that YOU and YOUR team focus on what they can do and preform well. Last year, our robot only had an arm that could flip over, if thats how to word it, but if we extended all the way it was a penalty. We had our last match against the top team at our regional, who also proceeded to win worlds, that we were against. We could score a few frisbees in the low goal but it wasn't worth it, we were with total rookies, who couldn't score. I had to fight my whole team for 20 minutes to convince them we would be better off showing that we could do good defense, which we did towards the end of the matches but not yet notable to scouts, than to try and out dump the best team. In the end our own alliance member broke their promise and tried to play D on them, which they couldn't at all, and ended up making us miss the other robot by trying to shove us out of the way so they could do it which caused us to get nowhere. Was it our fault, in a way yes, like I said, we hadn't done anything noteable until day two of quals, but moral of the story is, I believe that if you do what you do well, every match, than your alliance won't hold you down. Its about getting picked for finals for teams like me, not trying to prove yourself every match when you obviously can't. People need to realize this, and this isn't directed towards the top teams, yall do what yall do, I am in no position to tell yall anything, but rookie and newer teams, do what everyone has been saying, they say it for a reason, do what you can do and do it well! If I'm wrong anywhere, please correct me if I'm wrong, I'm all about constantly learning!