Thread: Pit Scouting
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Unread 02-03-2011, 21:34
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Re: Pit Scouting

For pit scouting, I've personally found that it is often better to ask questions about what a team can do, not how well they can do it. For example, last year, "Can you go over a bump or under the tunnel?" and "Do you have a possession mechanism?" Typically a team won't lie about what they can do. Although most will exaggerate about how well they can do it. This helps your team a lot more because if I team said no to both of the aforementioned questions, I probably would take them off a pick list, unless there was a strong reason why I should keep them.

Again, this is not the most important scouting, but it can make your life easier during a scouting meeting if you can just automatically take off 25% teams from your list because they can not complete the game functions that you require on an alliance.
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