Highest ranked team not picked?

[sdcantrell56]

Originally Posted by GDB

It's a shame that scouting is not looked at as much at championships because the basis of most teams is to have fun. I realize that for the most part is all about the FIRST experience but it's a shame some didn't realize the potential of other teams for their high level skill due to their ranks. Some teams were troubled due to bad matches with rookie teams and teams could not know that had happened if they actually did scout.

Next time Plasma Robotics will try harder to carry our whole team farther. Though it's very hard to carry through championships and regionals itself. We ranked 29th out of 76 teams and we were planning to get picked but our last two matches brought us down from the top 15 to the lower third of teams.

Not sure why you think scouting isn't as big of a deal at Championship as at the lower levels. All of the top teams (ie teams playing in elims) are very much intensely scouting. You don't end up on Einstein without it.