[Ed Law]

We do not promote ourselves to other teams by telling them what we can do. We show them on the field and in the statistics. Sometimes at the end of Friday, I share our scouting data with the top 24 teams if there is something about us that should be highlighted. I never look at flyers that other teams give us. I am usually way to busy analyzing the data.
We take pictures of every robot with their bumpers on so we know what they look like during our scouting meeting Friday night. We have every bit of scouting information about every robot to make our decision. We have 6 students on a rotating basis to watch every robot of every match. Last year we even tape every match so we can go back to review them if needed.
One suggestion is on Saturday morning, if your team leaves a student at the pit, make sure that student knows about the robot and can answer questions. When I stop by to ask questions, I am interested in that robot and I may not have time to come back a second time if I don't get the answer from that student the first time.
We rely heavily on scouting data, OPRs and notes from watching matches to make our alliance selection list. We put teams into 3 categores, good, average and below average (do not pick) teams. We go back to look at the average category robots and ask questions to finalize where we put teams on our alliance selection sheet.
We usually go back to each pit Saturday morning to confirm