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Originally Posted by benhulett
Indeed you are correct sir, which is why halfway through that competition when I realized our rank would be stuck very low because of bad match ups, that I could depend on good scouting to pick the best bots. So while watching the alliance selections, I decided to count. I counted two robots outside of the top 24 that were selected. I believe that there were far more suited bots for the top 8 than those in the top 24. This is why I have such little faith in the majority of teams scouting abilities. I did see some awesome scouting by some teams, but not too many.
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You don't have to rely on other team's scouting abilities. So you did poorly on qualifications, go out and meet other teams and market your robot. Make posters of your robot's abilities and hand them out personally to every team. Also, record your own statistics and show it to other teams. Get your team's name out.
In my opinion there are some teams with poor scouting systems that may not look at every robot's abilities. These teams are the teams that just view FIRST ranking method. Most would be grateful if you made their job easier for them by proving your robot deserves to be selected. However, make sure not to be overly aggressive.
Drawing from personal experience (in FVC) last year, there were 99 competing teams and we were ranked 94th due to some controller/pairing problems. However we decided to market ourselves to the top 8 and ended up in an alliance and performed very well. If we didn't market ourselves, there would have been no chance of us being selected (as far as I know, the next worse seeded team was ranked in the 60s).