What can we do to get noticed

[WorkThoseBuns]

Team 779 would like to know how to get noticed for the draft next time. At the Buckeye Regional some may recall a wooden robot (the only one there) that didn't do half bad, heck we think it did great. It was our first year and we really didn't know what we were getting into. Our team consisted of seven (even thats a stretch) students, 2 alumni engineers, and the shop teacher. At the end of the qualifying matches we were ranked 16th.
I'm sure everybody has stories like this, but we went 4 and 3 with two of the matches being extremely close. The Xerox team was extremely apologetic about not plugging their controls in, don't worry no hard feelings, seeing as ours broke that round if yours had worked we'd be apologizing to you. The FEDs and us had a tough loss because both of us overlooked how many balls were put into one of the goals and by the time we realized it, it was too late. The third loss we're still bitter about, oh well, its a team sport. We did manage to win our final match going solo. Our partner was dead from the get go, but fortunately for us our opposition was having similar problems.
At any rate, if any of our losses had been a win we would have been a seeded team, considering 2 of the top 8 were picked by top 8 teams.
So seeing as 3 robots on 8 teams makes 24 bots advancing we were very disappointed to be up in the top 24 and not get drafted. We did go and talk to every seed and then some. I guess its a matter of talking to the right people. Team 859 ( i think thats right) was the only team to give us a serious look. 240 was nice to us too. And Team 859 won it all with their selection of the FEDs and Las Guerillas, both robots similar to ours (the FEDs was basically a metalic clone and faster). Las Guerillas was a fabolous bot by the way, no one on our team saw it compete prior to the finals so it was a surprise dominator.
So when regionals rolls around next year, we just wanna know what it takes to get noticed.
THANKS