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LoL 3 steps ahead of yah, only reason why we integrated into FMP is because of Mobile :-)

We have the palms up and rearin, The paper = just for reports so people can have hard copy easier than trying to upload after every couple matches

we'll also most likely set up a pit system so people can do almost everything by themselves ( workin on getting some lcd monitors for easy access to it )

We want everything real time and not have to wait for it to be exported to the web, if we can our Webmaster to put one of his servers on filemaker its a diff story, We'll have almost instant uploads after every match ( and for nationals because he has a 10 meb dedicated there it would be almost unmatchably fast )

Ohh and about scoring, I beg to differ if I understand you correctly. My team and I believe that the quanatative data collected in matches would be much superior in getting an idea of how good a bot is than a qualatative one.

Last year when we would scout people would tell us ( i'm sorry to say ) a bunch of malarky ( thought I was gonna swear didn't you ) we would go out and watch them in a match and they would suck it up, and could do absolutely nothing they said they could do, OR they would have an amazing bot with no one who could drive it. The problem with a qualatative analysis is 2 people look at things differently so unless you stick the same guy out in the field oppinions will change, even on the course of a day one persons oppinion will change on which is more important

That is why we have devised a system of qualatative and quanatative scouting to give us actual Robot Efficiency Data, the raw numbers and averages are irrefutable. We've put a lot of consideration into how to make the system fair and unbaised to certain bot types realizing that all bots are indeed equally important, ( right now working on exactly how you give defensive bots numeric credit where numeric credit is due )

We believe that with out quanatative information your scouting is incomplete, but none the less without qualatative also your incomplete

Ps. I bet we live even closer than you think My teams in ft. laudy daudy ( lauderdale ) but i'm in plantation
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