Tips for Team Promotion to Scouts

[remulasce]

It's not a bad flier, but even that is too much self-promotion for a scout to take seriously. As you said, the picture is the most important thing, but that picture doesn't tell a scout what he wants to know. Better would be shots of the drivetrain, the "high traction wheels" themselves, and the bridge manipulator. A scout does not trust your declaration of "no penalties", "bridge manipulator works", "can drive over balls to balance", and will not have faith in your drivers' years if it is not evident on the field. What he might do, however, is look at a team number on his pick list as he attempts to rank it, and wonder exactly what that robot /has/. Conventional scouting is good at figuring out how well a robot performs, but it's a bit harder to judge the overall quality of construction, how likely it is to fail, etc. That's why a scout would like a picture of your bridge lowering device: Is it a wimpy pneumatic piston, or is it a beast of aluminum? Does it look taped together? That's the sort of thing that he can use to place your robot above the near-identically-performing next one. Otherwise, your only option is to just do better.