This year we appointed someone to scouting and he took it extremely seriously
During the six weeks (because he is a programmer) he made a program to help him scout. You would input the team number and click if they shot in the Top, Middle, bottom basket , or missed. Then this would calculate the accuracy of the robot. Then you would say if they balanced, and how many robots balanced with them. All this info was put into a spread sheet and aided in our scouting. We also did pit scouting, but i didn't see how that was done. A picture was taken of every robot so we knew what each robot looked like later. Friday night we spent 2 hours in a hotel meeting room coming up with a list of teams we felt would be the best for First pick (a good shooting robot). Then we made a list for who would be able to lower the bridge and aid in balancing the best, which was our second pick.
Our first pick in Smoky Mountains was 234 (18th seed) which has an amazing shooter (better than ours in my opinion, even though Two team awards say otherwise). Then our second pick was 3259 (16th seed and still wondering how they were still not picked) which has a 10 point autonomous, played good defense, delivered balls to the other side of the field, raised the bridge for us AND stopped the bridge from titre-tottering. Awesome picks that helped us win the Regional.
this video will show you how well the alliance worked