Making a post-build Top 25 list without seeing half of the robots is like forecasting the weather based on what happened yesterday.
Sure, you might get it right more than half the time (Farmer's Almanac, I'm looking at you!), but it's genuine accuracy should be taken with a fairly large grain of salt until these teams either prove or repudiate their past record for the 2009 season.
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Originally Posted by Peter Matteson
How can you make a post ship list not including a single team that was at the only scrimmage utilizing an official FRC competition field and control system?
Out of 40+ teams at the Suffield Shakedown some of whom have powerhouse reps I would expect to see at least one here...
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IMHO, it's better to be a sleeper robot coming into the first Regional competition, because it throws everyone off guard. And since this list is conspicuously absent of any of the powerhouse Northeast teams (including some who've made it onto Einstein more often in the past few years than most of the teams in this list) save 121, I suspect there will be a lot of sleepers this year.