[Tottanka]

i happen to be one of the voters...

And i would like, once again, to remind everyone that this is just a game.

Beeing asked to rate teams fropm all around the globe is no easy task. There is no chance for me to consider teams that are quite new and have no videos or pictures of their design here.

I have top ranked 71, without even seeing their design. This is a team i know will perform greatly year after year, and i know that without seeing their robot.

Besides - if you guys haven't seen pictures or videos of some robots in this video, it doesn't mean that the voters haven't. Look at Looking Forward's predictions, he has some info on robots that i personally don't have, and maybe some of the voters have that information or more.

And again, if you do not agree with those rankings you are more than welcome to post them here, or even better try joining the voters, i'm not sure how they are picked but you might easily be one of them.

We would all be very excited to see all of those 25 teams that are here now beeing in the top 25 when the season is over, but we all know that won't happen and that is exactly why we all like FIRST and any other kind of sports - the unknown guranteed to happen at many of the regiponals, in many of the games. If this prediction would have been entirely correct there would be no reason to attend or watch any regional, but you still are going to do it, and you still are going to be excited to see the first match that any of those 25 teams participate in during the wekk one regionals.

So please, if you have any complaints about this list and it's organizer and voters you may either post here your own opinion, or just completely ignore the whole thread. This is not something we say you must follow, this is no rule and no solid state of teams - it's just a prediction, motivated by intuition, knowladge and scouting done by each voter.