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Another story from 2006 I thought I might add in..

Last year we seeded 11th at GLR, on Friday I realized that we may be in the top 8 so I explained to our scouting team that we needed a list in order of the best alliance choices. I decided that I was gona be the person to go up and pick our partners if we did get picked because nobody else knew what was going on. When the time for picking rolled by, there wasnt any list made so one of the parents quickly wrote down the top 24 seeding teams. I was the last person to make it to the field for alliance picking (sorry everyone). When I got there I couldnt read any of the numbers on the list and it was a nightmare, I was too frantic to start marking down teams that had already been picked and all too soon I was getting called up to be the 8th alliance leader. I was like @#$!. A nice girl nearby told me that it was ok and she told me who the next team on her list was, team 65 I believe. So i went up and asked them to be our partners. They accepted. Then I asked their person who a good team was real quickly before I picked my next partner. We lost out in quater finals (against the winning alliance).

It was probably the most Nerve racking thing ive ever had to go through (in FIRST), I didnt want to walk up there and ask for a team that had already been picked, or didnt exist in front of 1000s of people.

Moral of the story - Scouting is imporant and organize things before the regional so that you have that list made up!