[Tim Arnold]

Totally agreed. If you aren't quite truthful to pit-scouters... not such a big deal. And stand scouters can learn pretty quick when you are lying. But in the hectic time between matches, its just hurting yourself to overstate your capabilities.

For example, our autonomous never got lucky while we were there (it was brand new code not run at regionals), and we would straight up say that its pretty much blind (just a single ultrasound - our camera smoked out) and we were 0:5 or whatever the current stat was. But we would still try to work out, if possible, a way to run it since dumb luck might be with us.

You can still try to do the things you feel your bot is good at, but just be truthful. Most alliances are willing to work things out to keep all parties happy, but they can only do such if you are honest.