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It's summer so I'll entertain the common and duplicate thread on the subject.

Our setup was rather elaborate. We used a Google Docs spreadsheet and form to populate it with 7 laptops and 7 students. The Google Docs spreadsheet was rather fancy with lookups and pivot tables. We had six scouts (one for each robot) and a head scout for data checking and review and as a stand-in if someone had to leave. We used a Clear 4G WiMax USB adapter into a Cradlepoint router into a network switch and ran a wired network to the 7 laptops. We also had a cameraman with a tripod taking full-field video of every match and encoding and uploading to Youtube on the fly from the stands. Then down in the pits, we had another Clear 4G WiMax adapter, Cradlepoint router, and network switch with a computer setup with a 24" widescreen monitor so we could jump on Youtube and watch past matches or jump on Google docs and look up scouting data. It all worked great, but it's not the simplest setup, and it does incur some cost. One interesting note is we went through over 20 Gigs of bandwidth between the two Clear devices over the three day period.