[Donut]

This is a problem every year, and it always bugs me. Probably the best data I heard from a team this year was at the Championships where they told us that they had just had to install new transmissions for every part of their robot, and weren't even sure if they were going to move that match. We planned our match accordingly, and almost pulled out a win. Had they claimed they could use their arm well and "thought" (I hate that word) they could get 3 tubes up, we might have gone to play defense as we weren't scoring well at that point, and would have gotten annihilated in the match.

The bigger problem I encountered was not teams outright claiming they could score 5 tubes when they couldn't, but saying "we've been scoring 1, but without defense we could get 4-5". This is alot harder to disprove with scouting data as you don't know if they actually were defended or not in the matches they scored 1 (or maybe you do, depends what scouting data you take).

Going to the pre-match scouting sessions, please make sure that the roles you play are ones you can do too. For example, it may be that your robot scores alot less under defense, but it doesn't make any sense to try to have one of your partners block for you if all 3 robots are omni-drive geared for 15fps (this is an exaggeration, but you get the idea).