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Originally Posted by MagiChau
I find pit scouting a method to understand more of how the robot works. Its fine knowing the robot is good, but I can't help but wanting to find the answer to why with the robot in front of me at a pit.
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Quite a few people approached us at FLR and told us they had no idea how our robot worked (because it was, for the most part, 'under the hood'). They wanted to know due to engineering curiosity (which is great), but it had no bearing on success at competition. During competition, that a robot works is more important than how.
That said, I always tour the pits and look at everyone's robots... I want to know everything I can about everything I can, because knowing is always better than not knowing... But as far as the competition itself goes, it's largely irrelevant.