Lack of passion in scouting

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Quick story at how important scouting is...

We (503) seeded 4th in curie division at the championship last year(2006). My friend was out talking with woodie flowers, so I got to go out for alliance selection. I get a clipboard with the scouting list top ranked teams. I thought a mentor who loves to scout put it together and everything was perfect. I take 451 as my first pick...great choice they are awesome we won a regional with them earlier that year, sweet. 2nd pick rolls around, I look at my list, and I have no idea who this team is that I'm gonna pick, no offence but I don't even remember who they are to this day. But 222 tigertrons were next on the list, and I thought they were pretty good. I picked the team thinking well my scouting team ussually knows what's going on... BAD IDEA. I find out that just a bunch of under classmen were screwing around scouting play gameboy half the time. If my scouting team had been paying attention they would have not made such a mistake and ranked 222 a little higher. I can't complain, we some how won the division off a little bit of luck, some ref mistakes, etc. and that no name team was sooooooooo happy. It was their first time in a tourny and first time winning anything. I guess it all worked out, but we could have went a little further on einstein if we had 222. SCOUTING TEAMS PAY ATTENTION!