Tips for Team Promotion to Scouts

What Christopher (Randomness) said. A distinctive team/robot is always a very good thing to have. Team 100 is a prime example of this (Gotta get me one of those hats one day...)

To add on to this list, you want to make sure you are known by other teams. This is the huge social aspect of FIRST. Talk to teams often. Very often. Go around the pits every once in a while and talk to people. Make friends. Get to know the team members, and robots, very well. Getting on a FIRST name basis is also great, with team members, and the robot.

Not only does this make your team look good, but it also opens up so many opportunities. Working well in alliances, alliance selections, and even future team collaborations. 256 is currently in collaboration this year with 2489, because their team leader (BeltSanderRocks) and I became friends on CD, met at an offseason, and became good friends.

My final, and favorite tip: Be a strategist. Literally write down winning strategies and scenarios with you and other teams. I make a few hundred each year, and they become ever so helpful. To be able to go up to a team and say "We would work well together because of X, Y, and Z, and if we do 1, 2, and 3 we will win every match ever", is one of the largest selling points for teams. Don't tell someone you'd be good with them. Show them. Use statistics, logic (Nerds love logic), and even give match examples of you two working together if possible.


Great thread idea! I can't wait to learn from what everyone says!