Tips for Team Promotion to Scouts

[EricH]

Be honest about your team's robot. An assessment like you gave in this thread, with more specific numbers (say, "we balanced X times in Y matches and didn't attempt the other Z times"), would probably be just about perfect. Or if there's a minor technical issue that you fixed and started performing better on the second day.

But if you stretch the truth, and the scouting team of the team you're talking to spots that, then they'll have the real data, and that can make you look bad to that team. That'll probably hurt your chances of getting picked.

And yes, be proactive. Stop by sometime Saturday morning--if you're on the bubble that might be enough to get you scouted one last time before picking.

The real fun trick is to talk to the rookie/sophomore teams who are in prime position to be picking--they may not quite know what they're doing, so they're the most likely to remember that "oh hey, team XYZ does this stuff, let's pick them". But, be careful with doing that... they may or may not be making a good choice to advance out of the quarterfinals.