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Originally Posted by katiyeh07
TJ Squared
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I agree, team 88 definitely should have been picked. I don't know how they did at nationals, but they were at both of the regionals we attended. (In fact, they were seated in front of us at one regional and next to us at the other.) They are a very spirited team and they have a really good robot. I was so surprised when I walked by a couple of the guys from team 88 and they told me that they weren't in the finals, I actually called one of my team mates in the stands to tell her.
I was also surprised that team 138 wasn't picked. They were our first choice at BAE. (we ended up being finalists) Our scouting system was not very good at BAE (It basically consisted of "Who do you think is good?") and none of us were quite sure how they would do. They ended up being a great pick. (and also a very nice group of people) I was really happy that they ended up getting to play.
I was also sad to see that teams 007 and 122 who we were with in Annapolis were not picked. They were both really good.
I definitely agree that there should be more time in between the end of qualifying matches and the begining of picking. Due to the limited time between the end of our last match and the beginning of alliance picking, the person who usually does our alliance picking (our human player) and I (the scout captain) didn't make it to the field until we had already made our first pick. Thank god our driver knew who our first choice was and had the opportunity to pick them. We then figured out our second choice by making hand signals (this is difficult as I do not have 108 fingers and there were quite a few teams in our division who's team number had the numbers 1 and 8 in it) and finally writing numbers on the back of our scouting sheets and holding them up.
We have developed a very objective scouting system (which I am very proud of) which works really well and nearly ensures that we don't overlook good teams, no matter what their seed. However, at BAE our scouting system was purely subjective and I am sure that we overlooked good teams simply because no one remembered them.