[gyroscopeRaptor]

Pit scouting is useful for all teams, whether you have a box-bot or a champion machine. We learned this firsthand. Last year, we had no scouting beyond notes.

This year, we made a form looking for details on all robots and scouted them all by 10 on Friday (62 team event, one group of 2 pit scouts) and had paper dossiers on each robot. Since our plan was mainly balancing, we learned after our second match (a 120 lb robot trying to balance with a 90 lb robot) that we needed to plan based on weight, form factor, and CoG to find the best alliance/co-op balance partner. We lined up perfectly in these aspects with the top teams in our event, and we would never have known this if it wasn't for pit scouting! We ended up balancing with the best.