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Originally Posted by Thunder910
The thing with this system is that not every team wants to scouts, cares to scout, or thinks they need to scout. Scouting is a lot of work. While I do think that cooperative scouting can be great (as evidenced by Team 20's collab scouting at our regionals and at champs), I don't know if every team should be involved.
If every team has the same scouting data, everyone knows who the best robots to pick are, and it gets rid of the competitive edge you get by scouting.
And not every team is looking for that competitive edge.
I think scouting collaboratively is a good thing, but sharing the information with everyone removes the "profit" incentive from the equation that is the edge meant to allow your team to perform better than others in elimination rounds.
These are just my thoughts- not necessarily all of Team 20's, just mine.
Take them for what they are.
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Those are certainly some fair points. And we also realize that getting every single team at a regional to collaborate is next to impossible, plenty of teams are going to prefer their own scouting system.
About teams not wanting to scout though: That's the main purpose of CrowdScout, to distribute workload. At the WI regional, the total cumulative man-hours spent scouting is about 64,125 (And that's assuming that there are 10 teams who don't bother to scout) Every team that scouts spends roughly 1282 man-hours per regional on scouting. That's a heck of a lot of redundant work.
Even with only one or two teams on board, the scouting burden on those teams goes down drastically. Suddenly, you only need three scouters, or two, or even just one per team.