[LightWaves1636]

Originally Posted by geowasp

Ok, so team 1552 did not get selected into eliminations, either
a) they were not a good robot
b) they are ranked 40 out of 45
c) they are a good robot, but failed to exemplify their abilities in the round robin rounds, for whatever reason (new non-random alliance partner selections, etc. )

should they have attempted to "sell" themselves to the higher seeds, if they think the rankings do not reflect their actual ability, or should they simply wait and see, hoping that scouting by other teams would've noticed them? Does it seem desperate if a lowly ranked team attempts to make a final effort to convince potential alliance captains to pick them? In ideal conditions, rankings should reflect a team's ability, but we all know in around 10 matches, some unexpected teams can happen, and a good robot worthy of going into eliminations can easily end up with a losing record, and in the bottom of the rankings. So, my question to the FIRST community out there is: what would you do to get your team into eliminations if you know your team has a great robot, but your rankings are absolutely abyssmal come alliance selections?

I thought you guys had a nice looking bot but 40? eesh, but I wasn't able to watch any matches because I stayed in the pit keeping it tidy and doing repeat ability tests on our robot. AND NO, it does not seem desperate when a low ranked team makes attempts in smooching up to other teams as a final attempt. As long as the teams got good scouts, than they'll know exactly which teams to pick for alliance and not just base it off of rank or else team 1 would pick team 2, team 3 picks team 4 and so on and so forth and teams like us wold have never gotten chosen. But then again if a team didn't show a good performance in the prelims, it's very hard to say "we want them". We dropped from 1st to 18th in three matches, we were dominating the entire morning up until everyone started pinning us and our alliances wouldn't help us and try to score it themselves but everyone knew we had a mean bot because of how well we performed in the majority of our matches. Plus 1583 was able to get 555 to chose us because we were one of the very few bots who had the clearance to get up. But for the question, I would most defiantly have the entire team be talking to the top 8 teams constantly. didn't work for us at 18th though for most of the other teams but as long as someone wanted 1583 we were good.