[blaskay16]

I believe the the playoff selections at this years competiton was a big popularity contest. There were plenty of very talented robots out there this year but no one was scouting. Im not going to single anyone team out but there were teams who should have never been picked, teams who went out and died. Scouting is a huge part of winning in these competitions. I can say that our team scored at least 5 ringers a round and still had 50-60 seconds to spare in the match to deploy ramps. Scouting is HUGE!!!. I also noticed that the rules were changed in the middle of the tournament and there were inspection discrepencys between inspectors. All in all this was a dissappointing year for the great lakes regional