[Chief'sDad]

I was sitting near Chief Delphi's scouting team in Cleveland. They rated every robot in every match according to what it was designed to do, how well it did it, and how quickly it did it. They used the entire 40 min. lunch break saturday to compile the results and come up with a list of robots that they thought Chief Delphi 7 could do well with.
As it turned out, 47(seeded 7th) got picked by a team on the list, so they accepted. Had 47 been picked by a team not on the list they would have declined, waited for their turn, and picked a team the scouts thought they could do better with.
It was pretty impressive to watch the scouting team at work!

If anyone passed out buttons, or was active in trying to get picked, our scouting team wouldn't have noticed. They were too busy ranking, and tabulating.
Don't get me wrong, we like buttons and all kinds of stuff. But they don't affect our judgement.

My advice? Keep performing well on the field. You will get noticed. Our scouts didn't pay any attention to how high or low a team was seeded. They just looked to see how the robot performed, and whether it had the skills that would work well with our robot.