[Citrus Dad]

I agree that your team sounds quite ready and most of the suggestions are great. I suggest you focus on a couple things, most at least hinted at here:

- Pay attention to which teams you're playing with particularly the second day. Focus on teams that are either in top 4 in the rankings or have high OPRs. Unfortunately, the OPR this year is not a great indicator of offensive power (the correlation is only about 0.65 with our scout data this year vs. about 0.9 the last 2 years), but it works in a pinch if you aren't scouting yet. If you are in a match with those teams, listen very carefully their instructions. If they ask you to jump, ask how high. During the match listen carefully to their drive coach and try to coordinate and anticipate as much as possible. We've dropped teams from our draft list because we didn't like working with them.

- Promote yourself in the pits. Pay attention the game strategy of those teams. You might even watch videos of the top finishing teams before your district and see how they play their game. Then decide what role you can fit. Ask them to visit your pit and give them some advice--top teams love to help out rookies! If you can, them show them a function of your robot that fits their strategic need.

- Watch for the teams with scouting operations. There will be groups of at least 8-12 students focused on pads or computers or tablets. Find their head scout and ask them what they are looking for in a robot. If they're interested in you, they'll share some information, and might even ask you to demonstrate a role for their scouts. You'll make it on their list just because you asked.

Hope this helps. It great that you're asking and showing such interest.