View Single Post
  #21   Spotlight this post!  
Unread 13-06-2013, 22:40
1306scouting 1306scouting is offline
Registered User
FRC #1306 (BadgerB.O.T.S.)
Team Role: Scout
 
Join Date: Apr 2012
Rookie Year: 2004
Location: Madison, WI
Posts: 24
1306scouting is on a distinguished road
Re: Seating Lottery?

From the perspective of a scouting captain who is trying to implement a very large collaborative scouting initiative (CrowdScout):

Having a dedicated scouting area would be nice, but every team has different needs. Many teams (including my own up until this year) would need at least 6 seats to accomodate their scouting team. 7 would be even better. At 7 seats per team, and let's say 50 teams in a regional, that's 350 seats. Many venues couldn't accomodate that many seats without making compromises in seating for other groups (VIPs, cheering sections, and the like).
None of these account for teams that use computer based systems (and the associated power requirements) or that would need to move their scouting sheets from the dedicated area to a processing area.


If the teams of a regional wanted to organize it, I could see it happening. I would never ask a regional planning committee or a Regional Director to try to organize this for the teams, as the logistics are very difficult. Keep in mind this is for a scouting section alone, just the requirements I know from teams at my regional, and ignoring any setups I saw at Championships or here on CD.
Reply With Quote