Depression-driven Tractor Pulls

[HotWheels2002]

The Championship Event was an up and down ride for team 007 (Einstein). We came in as NJ regional winners (3rd seed) with an 88% or so win percentage, and had full expectations for a run through the eliminations. The first day of competition went okay, FIRESTORM 4 went 4 and 1, but averaged only 65 or so QP's. I know it's a cliche thing to say, but I truly did feel that we had less-than-par partners for the first day.
Day 2 went well at first: we won both matches and beat an awesome alliance of Wildstang - 111 (seeded 4th at the time, I think) and team 88 (seeded 8th, I think) for a good 100 or so point round. That took us into 14th place or so. We thought we were looking pretty good with a record of 6 and 1 in Disney(and the fact that we had two goals every match except one).
As we finished our last match, the team scrambled to sell our robot. I could see right away that it was gonna be tough, just because of the shear number of teams that were all courting only 8 top teams (I know how that feels too!). Apparently we didn't do too well.
Alliance selection was nerve-racking, as each captain called number after number, none of them "7." It felt like a shot to the heart.
We made our way back to the pits, depressed and confused, wondering what we didn't do to sell ourselves that many other teams must have.
With the season officially over, and being seniors and all, a group of us decided that it was time to play. We tethered FIRESTORM 4 and headed outside. On the carpeted test patch, we pulled a single goal containing 6 people and controls (an estimated 1050 lbs.) for several yards before running out of open space.

This is a question for those teams that were selected into the Einstein finals... What exactly did you do to sell yourselves?

I suppose we tried to let our performance do too much of the talking, but at least we know to not rely on that next year.

Congrats to Beatty Beast and company for the awesome win, you guys looked great.