[Brandon Holley]

I have to say here that, and please dont take this the wrong way, in the heat of competition some things can happen and cause some frustration afterwards that lingers for a while.

This sounds a bit like one of these kinds of posts. Yes it is unfortunate to not be picked for the eliminations, but honestly you have to trust the people you've never met, the scouters of other teams.

In arizona this year we didnt receive our robot until 3pm thursday afternoon, and we had a lot of work to do on it. We decided to forego our morning matches on friday so that our robot was fully able to function. Well our plan didnt work out because we werent fully working until the end of the day friday. Saturday morning we hit the ground running and were able to show that our catapult was more than capable.

Teams saw this, and even though we had a horrible rank, we were picked, and we made it to the semifinals.

There are hundreds of stories just like this one all over chiefdelphi and FIRST. For each time scouts miss a quality robot for elims, theres a 100 times they don't. Unfortunately everyone cannot be in the finals, you gotta sell yourself.