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ScoutPro: Team 612's Scouting Application at Atlanta

Over the past month the Programming Team for 612 has produced a very in depth scouting program for scouting teams to use at nationals. We have put it together in an CD package for us to distribute to you or you to pick up from us.

This application contains everything your scouting team could possibly want to do with scouting. And the best part is that it is easy to use and affordable: Free!

Some features of the program include:
-Team Creation: Do you have information on teams that you want to store for next year to scout and view, well we have made interfaces where you can detail the design of the drive system, the arm, the autonomous mode, and about 8 other different areas of detail that are important about the robot.
-We know that some teams out there are Top Teams, and with the responsibility of being a Top Team you need to know how to manage your alliance selections. We considered this factor by making a whole section of the application dedicated to the describition of your alliance possibilities. Is team xxxx a Top Team, an average team, a weak team? How to they hellp you, how do you help them out. You can describe all of this in the alliance Organizer, and once you have stored it, you can view it on later to advise your team of possible selections.
-For those scouting teams that aren't so much interested in the details of each teams robot, but rather the match scouting to see how they rank. Our easy interface allows you create a match and classify it as one of 5 types including practice, ellimination, quarter-finals, etc. you can include notes on each alliance, notes on the match in general, and even mark if you are on one of the alliances. Since it can get quite hectic at FIRST we have a match scheduler which allows you to input the time of the match, and each time you use our application it lets you kow when each match is about to occur so you can prepare yourself.
-One of the primary purposes for scouting is to observe the strategies of other teams. One part of the application dedicates itself to this function. Once you see a strategy you like, name it whatever you want (i.e 612's amazing autonomous mode, or Team 333's good tic tac toe method), then describe that strategy below so that you don't have to rely purely on your memory to articulate this to your drivers and coaches later on.
-Lastly one of the most important features we have added is our own method of ranking the teams. We all know that win/loss record is not evident of how good a team truly is. If you have match scouts they can input the data of each team in the matches they partake in and our program will output a ranking of all of your teams in the database, so that you know who is truly the best.

We will post pictures of the application and the cd package tomorrow so that you can get a sneak peak of what is to come. Sorry for this, but we would like to come and meet you at Atlanta by giving you the CD package to install on your computer so that you can see how ScoutPro will help out your team.

Thanks for taking the time to learn about ScoutPro presented by Team 612 and we hope to give you a copy at Atlanta. If you choose to use ScoutPro in Atlanta, we hope you like it.

Thanks,
Team 612 Programming team.