Picking alliances

[geowasp]

And here's another issue:
If a team's scouting is not good enough to notice a good robot, do you really want to be selected by them? Chances are, that their other pick would not be carefully chosen either. As a matter of fact, if they choose you, then you may lose the chance to be placed on a better alliance (assuming this is round 2 of selections).

On the flip side, what i think the "selling" process sold be, is giving the top 12 teams a datasheet, of objective performance of ur robot at the regional. for example, for rack and roll, u may include total number of tubes scored, with the team numbers of those you've climbed onto, and those that have climbed onto you. This way, teams with limited resources and without a complete scouting database have a chance to take a look at your robot.

I guess its a lesson at arrogance for me this year, I simply assumed our team would get picked, and made no effort to inform the alliance captains of our performance. Completely relying on the system doesn't quite work out all the time. Too bad it's my last year.