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Originally posted by 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.
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In previous years, there have been teams hiding somethings they can secretly do. In the finals of the Great Lakes Regional of 2000, we were beating the Chief Delphi allience, until they went to our goal and stole balls out of it. Nobody had any idea that they had the ability or driver skill to do such a thing. It proved very valuable and won the regional for them. In other words, just because they do not show the ability to do something right away doesnt mean they cant. Thats the sole purpose of scouts. Ask around, you might learn something that other teams don't know and pick a team that could be a high asset that nobody knows about.