[Chris Nowak]

All hes saying is that its not a valuable use of time to scout robots that would be a bad pairing for you in the finals. For instance, in 2003, it would not have been useful to scout a ball pickup robot that couldnt get any goals if you were a ball pickup robot who couldnt manipulate goals because there would be no way to manipulate goals with them as your partner. You would scout out the teams which most complemented your style of play. Of course, you also do scout the ones you are up against or have to be paired with in qualifying matches.