[galewind]

Originally Posted by Meyerman

how can you call the scouting poor! if it was poor scouting we woulda picked in order of ranking we picked who we picked for reasons cheesy poofs werent top 8 we picked them and they prob shouldnt have been around for the 2nd seed to pick they were amazing and team 64 was ranked far back just like 103 and they both got picked because some scouts were good and realized these bots shouldnt be were they are. the ranking shouldnt matter outside top 8 you should be picking on what the robot can provide for the alliance not where its ranked what if 254 was in 85th yer telling me they shouldnt have been picked! it woulda been hard for them to do soo poorly but i hope you get what im trying to say. i think teams didnt scout well if they only picked low ranked teams because i know 3 great teams shoulda been picked but due to rankings they werent and that was definately bad scouting!

Our scouting wasn't bad, but I had been convinced by people of 2 different teams to go override that and to go through a certain strategy for picking people from the unique position I was in. I had essentially bought into this risky strategy, which ended up annoying the heck out of our scouting team. I am not at all disappointed with our alliance, but I wish I would have just stuck with what we wanted to do. It was our first time in that position, and I know I learned my lesson. We're still extremely pleased with how we did overall.