[Kristina]

Hey 779- Well I'm sorry that you didn't get picked at your regional event but it sure seems like you have a hard working team. As for getting picked next time, I'll share some hints of how we got picked for an alliance at our scrimmage (we haven't had a competition yet this year, first one is next week, eek!). Well you definately did the right thing by talking to the teams. But just talking to them won't do the trick, since all the teams go out to promote. We went up to teams well before picking time and asked them about their robot and then explained how our robot complemented their features. I think they were really impressed with our knowledge about our robot and the capablities we have.

Also, our team had a ton of spirit at Chatsworth, with our team running around with flags I made and just being really pumped up and I think the team we picked noticed us for that and most importantly remembered. Teams wouldn't want to work with a dull team that isn't gonna give 100% so you gotta show your spirit and team unity.

This is our second year and it will be our first time visiting Seattle so most of the teams won't know us up there. To get our name out and show our sportsmanship side, we made all the teams little goodluck bags with tons of candy related to our team name (hartburn so we put a whole lot of atomic fire balls and hot tamales). We're also attatching a little card saying good luck and what our robot can do along with a picture. I'm really hoping that this will work associate our cool robot with a friendly team, and a team that a future finalist would want to work with. I'll have to tell you if it works out when we come back but I sure hope so!