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Unread 14-03-2007, 15:44
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Re: Lack of passion in scouting

Quick story at how important scouting is...

We (503) seeded 4th in curie division at the championship last year(2006). My friend was out talking with woodie flowers, so I got to go out for alliance selection. I get a clipboard with the scouting list top ranked teams. I thought a mentor who loves to scout put it together and everything was perfect. I take 451 as my first pick...great choice they are awesome we won a regional with them earlier that year, sweet. 2nd pick rolls around, I look at my list, and I have no idea who this team is that I'm gonna pick, no offence but I don't even remember who they are to this day. But 222 tigertrons were next on the list, and I thought they were pretty good. I picked the team thinking well my scouting team ussually knows what's going on... BAD IDEA. I find out that just a bunch of under classmen were screwing around scouting play gameboy half the time. If my scouting team had been paying attention they would have not made such a mistake and ranked 222 a little higher. I can't complain, we some how won the division off a little bit of luck, some ref mistakes, etc. and that no name team was sooooooooo happy. It was their first time in a tourny and first time winning anything. I guess it all worked out, but we could have went a little further on einstein if we had 222. SCOUTING TEAMS PAY ATTENTION!
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