[Squeakypig]

My suggestion to you is to have 2 forms of scouting sheets (hopefully you have the personnel to pull this off).

The first set of scouting sheets is specifics for each robot and the team mentality towards their own robot. You go around the pits asking teams about what their robot is capable of, what strategies they plan to use, what problems they have been running into, etc. This is also a good time to take a picture of their robot and archive it on a memory stick or something for a scouting meeting which should take place after the first day of competitions.

The second set of scouting sheets is pure numbers. This sheet is used during actual matches. Use tally marks instead of numbers like previously suggested. You can compare this scouting information to the information you get from the pits to develop a pick list and to develop strategies with your alliances.

Personally, I believe if you are scouting all 6 teams on the field you do not need to note what "other robots balancing on bridge". You will already have that information on the other sheets. Instead, just have a free area titled "Misc. Comments". This is usually where we put defensive strategy if they were a defensive bot or maybe "bot balanced because other team had auto balancer" or "team balanced because Children of the Swamp was there".

Giving credit where credit is due: These basic scouting strategies of simplicity in the stands scouting combined with the pit scouting was taught to us by team 217 - The Thunderchickens.