Re: How do you scout?
 

When our programmer was working on developing scouting software in the off season, we tried it out using videos of matches. Turns out that a quick, effective way of scouting could be to videotape all the matches (showing the full field), and then just play the tape back at twice speed and have a few people scout each "active" robot, and perhaps play some matches over again as needed to catch those robots that didn't get properly watched the first time. It's pretty easy to see what's going on even at 4 times speed or faster, once you get the hang of it.

Re: How do you scout?
 

What we did this year was have 6 members watch (one per robot) on Friday and Saturday. On Thursday we had the scouting team do pit scouting we would have taken pictures of all the bots but couldn’t get a Polaroid camera in time. I would say how this worked but the scoters lost the binders in the stands on Friday so all we had was the pit scouting sheets:ahh: . They apparently lost interest when they found out at the end of Friday that we were ranked in the mid 20s and thus didn’t look for them because they thought we wouldn’t be selecting but when (on Saturday) we made a comeback and that we were selecting well they freaked out. Moral of the story handcuff the scoters to their papers and make sure only certain people have the key. :rolleyes: