Hey there guys,
Im Adriana Rice head scout on Team 20. This is how it has worked in our past 2 regionals where we colaboratively match scouted.
We have a spot in the stands where we sit with 6 scouts , 1-2 head scouts to organize, 1 person to enter data,and someone to file away the sheets.
Each of the 6 scouts gets a pen, clipbord and a stack of match scouting sheets. On the clipbord is a lable which tells the scout which robot they will, be watching. During there match they fill in their sheet.At the end of the match they hand it to the head scouts who scans it for any missing information or obvious errors, accidents happen so we double check
. The sheets are then handed off to Data entry and entered, then go off to be filed.
We continually upload to Dropbox the information as close to real time as we can to give teams up to date information on robot preformances. All teams who scout with us will have acces to the information,as well as the Excel spread sheets which show important averages and statistics.
What we ask of teams that scout with us is to be on a rotation of shifts one hour long throughout the competition. The more scouts we have colaborating the fewer shifts each scouts must take. As a plus team 20 allways has a treat in the stands for each shift.
As it stands we have enough scouts for 4 groups on a rotation basis. So scouts would have one hour on and 3 hours off.
This year we have also instituted a system where we also "pay" all scouts participating in lazer engraved "microchips" currency per shift ,these chips can be traded in for small fun prizes.
If you would like to see an example of the scouting sheets we used or have questions any other type of specifics about scouting together just shoot me an email at
mail.rice.a@gmail.com or comment further.
Thanks for the feedback guys