Sacrificing a State Championship for the Cause???

[JABot67]

Originally Posted by ComputerWhizIA

I would like to disagree with your statement. After four years of scouting at Atlanta and two years at Michigan States, I would say that MSC is deeper than any division* in Atlanta. For example, where else would a 2-time district finalist (2619), a district champion (2337) and a powerful scorer that scared every alliance at Troy and Cass Tech (226) would combine to form the 8th alliance. Also, where else would robots that scored around 6-10 balls a match would be the 15th and 16th pick (2612 and 2834).

Also, 971, unfortunately, must have had a bad set of qualifications matches since they were 2-5 during qualifications, so they would not have been noticed by most scouting teams (props to the scouting teams of 111 and 67 for finding a diamond in the rough).

*The only time where I saw a division that rivals the depth of MSC was Galileo '08, where there were easily 10-15 powerhouse teams.

I guess my post was mostly based on last year. For example, team 503 was 12th pick at MSC last year but 16th pick on Newton. The Bees moved down a couple of spots too, even with their (awesome) improved spitter. 247 was the second pick at MSC but the 10th pick on Curie. We saw some teams go up (469, 85) but mostly the trend was downward.

But maybe this year I am completely wrong. Michigan teams are that much better this year, with 33, 27, 2337, and many others rising up from off years to create powerful machines.