Agreed. There were times when our robot stopped driving because we didn't use a locknut where we should've. I don't know if this impacted scouting for other teams (It was on Saturday morning, a time we weight heavily for changes in robots), but nobody came up to us and asked us why our robot broke. We were a purely defensive robot (since our stupid kicker just gave up on us!), and were one of the fastest robots out there.

As far as pit scouting goes, most teams will tell you what the robot does, especially as it gets closer to Elims, rather than what it can't do. Don't use pit scouting as your basis for choosing your alliance, but rather back up your stand scouters' data with Teams' Drive Teams reference points.

Not to derail this thread too much, but, as I see it, the optimal alliance is 2 offensive/1 defensive. This will be especially true this year, as two robots attempting to place on the same scoring grid will be messy. The "defensive" robot could either block robots, tubes (!), or ferry tubes out to the scorers.