what i see after the competition

[Kris Verdeyen]

Originally posted by piconysm
Probably I am wrong, but I found that many teams were giving off stuffs to sell their team.

The practive of giving away buttons has the nice side effect of making your team more visible to the others at competition. Otherwise, it's easy to fade into the crowd. But there's no quid pro quo for teams that give buttons away. First of all, they'll give the buttons to anyone. And second of all, a team won't pick another team simply because they happened to have pretty buttons.

There are lots of reasons a team might pick a lower ranked team -
- a lower ranked team might have had a bunch of bad draws, but actually had a good robot.
- a higher ranked team had a few high scoring matches simply because of quality partners.
- A team, like 365, has a robot designed to score poorly, but to win every match.
- Some robots are just better matched as alliance partners than others.

Even including these reasons, though, it sometimes comes down to selling your robot. If you see that your team isn't going to be in the top 8 seeds, go bend the ear of someone who is. Tell them what your robot could do as an alliance partner for them. Don't be shy! You've got a good robot and you know it, make sure that those picking know it too.