[Jay O'Donnell]

Short answer: Never throw a team out of your scouting.

Story to back it up: 1058's lone regional win came in 2010 at GSR. We missed all of our practice matches or showed up and didn't do much, and didn't perform very well until very late in quals. We had just begun to hit our stride just before alliance selections, but it didn't look good for us to be picked since we had done so poorly early in the competition. Luckily one alliance had scouts smart enough to pay attention to more than just the beginning of the competition (1073 and 1519) and they picked us to join their alliance. Through those eliminations, we turned into the dominant force we would be all season (undefeated at Chesapeake and alliance captain at IRI) and helped our alliance to a regional win.

Don't judge a team by their first few matches. Teams change and improve throughout competitions.