[Ryan Dognaux]

Looks like a good start, here's a few suggestions on what I always try to do for my scouting sheets (I always use a paper system, it's cheap and easy), and some tips on scouting in general -

1) Three hole punch all of your scouting sheets prior to arriving at the competition and keep them all in a binder in numerical order. Have a person or a few people in charge of the binder and have them be in charge of handing the scouting pages to the rest of your team members in-between matches.

2) Give one team / one robot to one person on your team to watch for the upcoming match. You should have six people scouting and only watching that specific team & robot to record their match performance. Rotate your scouters out to give them a break - scouting is a tedious job, but it is also vitally important to your team. Make your entire team aware of how important scouting is prior to the competition and how their observations will relate directly to your team's on the field strategy.

3) Use one sheet of paper per team for the entire qualification rounds (all of Friday and half of Saturday) It's much easier to manage one page per team vs. more than one page per team. This means you will probably have to lose the field diagram on your scouting sheet. I will be honest, I've never used a field diagram - which position the team starts in during autonomous and what it does on the field can be described in other, more compact ways. Use both sides of the paper as well.

4) Have your strategist or runner gather up the appropriate team's scouting sheets far in advance to your own team's match. The strategist should converse with your team's upcoming alliance partners to develop your strategy. Use the scouting data to your advantage; if your opponents have a weakness, make the alliance well aware of it prior to the match. At the end of your strategy session, every team on your alliance should know what their role is in the upcoming match.

5) Bring clipboards. Bring lots of pens. Don't expect anyone else to remember to bring these items, because they will all forget.

6) Depending upon your qualification position at the end of Saturday, use your scouting data to your advantage. Often times the third draft pick is just as important, if not more important, than your second draft pick. An overlooked third draft pick steal can win you a regional.

PM me if you have any questions. Scouting is a lot of work, but if you do it right your drive team will thank you after every match.