What do you think

[BoyWithCape195]

Originally Posted by BillyGoats

well we have a situation kind of like yours.. we where 5th or 6th after 8 of our 10 matches then the last day we did not want to break any thing before the finals so we left it up to our alliance partner weather we would win or not... we lost our last two and ended up in 13th for the regional... luckily enough teams saw how good we where and we got picked first by the first place alliance... if i was in your situation i would of been pissed off for a while becuase i knew we had a good robot and if we did not get picked. it would sucked big time.. any ways remember theres always next time or even the nationals to get em back!

(we dont have the money....only way would have been to win the regional and get payed for by FIRST)

[BillyGoats]

this was going to be team 61's last year becuase of lack of support from the school ect... but thank goodness we won the regional becuase now they want to support us...we have done one regional for 6 years now becuase of lack of money but since we won florida we then went to our sponsers and asked for some money. thank goodness for having great sponsers we were able to raise over 5,000 in less than two days... well since you can not get em this year remember next year!

[kid robusto]

what happend suck for us , but there is no changing it. i hope that next year they top seeded team can accualy figure out what is going out, they seemed to not have a clue what anyone else was doing.

[J Flex 188]

I dont believe that FIRST pays for anyone anywhere to goto nationals even after they won a competition (someone correct me if wrong please =D). The same thing happened when 188 won west michigan last year. There was only 1 or 2 weeks in between and what ended up happening was that only the drive crew, human player, 1 teacher and 1 mentor went to houston while the rest of us stayed at home. I feel for your team, but theres not much anyone can do right now, and personally I feel the system is fine the way it is. Maybe your team could try to talk it up with the other teams a bit more? Prepare flyers and handouts and distribute them just before alliance pickings? or have representatives go out and talk with the high seeded teams as well. A lot of times high seeds pick other high seeds and then the 9th, 10th, 11th seeded teams pick and some do so without pre-scouted lists because they didnt originally believe they had to. At pittsburgh something like the 12th or 13th seeded team got to pick

Originally Posted by BoyWithCape195

(we dont have the money....only way would have been to win the regional and get payed for by FIRST)