2007 Great Lakes Regional, Best Ever?

[Beth Sweet]

Originally Posted by blaskay16

I believe the the playoff selections at this years competiton was a big popularity contest. There were plenty of very talented robots out there this year but no one was scouting. Im not going to single anyone team out but there were teams who should have never been picked, teams who went out and died. Scouting is a huge part of winning in these competitions. I can say that our team scored at least 5 ringers a round and still had 50-60 seconds to spare in the match to deploy ramps. Scouting is HUGE!!!. I also noticed that the rules were changed in the middle of the tournament and there were inspection discrepencys between inspectors. All in all this was a dissappointing year for the great lakes regional

Hearing that is surprising to me, according to our scouting database, by the end of the day Friday, your team had:
1st match: 0 ringers scored
2nd match: 1 ringer scored
3rd match: 1 ringer scored
4th match: 4 ringers scored
5th match: 3 ringers scored
6th match: 1 ringer scored
And that was with multiple people scouting your team, so I'm sure it wasn't a personal bias...

Overall, I thought that GLR went off pretty well. My kids had a great time and the other teams were more than generous with spare parts, knowledge and "sharing their lunches". Thanks to all of the teams who made this experience great.

[Edit] Please note: my post was not intended as a personal attack but rather as an example that accusations without foundation are not neccessary on this forum. Bragging and overstating is expected, but attacking other teams without evidence to back up your claims is inappropriate at best.