[ChrisH]

Originally Posted by Chris Fultz

And yes, sometimes good robots don't make it to the top 8. But teams with good scouting and tracking know which machines and teams can perform in a match and the better teams will almost always get selected for finals.

In LA, 980 was circulating a spread sheet that sorted teams by average points scored in a match. I think it was a very good indicator of the quality of the robots listed. There were also quite a few "bargins". That is teams that had very high scoring but low seeding. Several of the top 10 scorers had seedings in the teens and twenties (including us). The "bargains" didn't last too long when it came to picking though.