Highest ranked team not picked?

[jamesmcip]

Originally Posted by lovelj

In a nutshell, was ranking a poor metric of performance this year, more so than other years? I don't recall so many low raked teams being picked so early compared to prior years. What was it about this year's game that skewed ranking from individual performance?

This year definitely seemed like many great teams seeded extremely low for their ability. If your team is stuck with a dead robot (which occurred far more often this year), then you are pretty much screwed for the capture and it can make breaching difficult if they are right on a defense. Losing just a few ranking points due to some unlucky events can be the difference from seeding top 8 to seeding bottom 20.

This year at our first event for the first day we were only with one other functioning robot (or even once by ourselves) more often than we were with 2 working robots capable of at least challenging the tower.

I remember in Boston team 125 suffered from a lot of issues very early on and got rather unlucky so they seeded 28th, however they were a first pick of the second alliance and went on the be finalists at the event.