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Re: A New Way to Scout

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Originally Posted by antimatter_john View Post
What advantage does it have over wether your teams lose or win though? Big teams already have their own scouting system and so does most medium sized teams. Also you could be helping rookie or new or small teams. I don't see the point of it being secret, it's not like it is a special robot strategy or robot function. It is merely harmless data.
Exactly. What makes scouting actually mean something is what you do with the data. You're sharing the raw data, not how it's manipulated to be effective for your team.
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