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Re: Scouting Before Regionals

We did almost no pre-scouting last year before our Week 1 regional, but our in competition scouting system provided us a clear advantage when we went through the draft. We won the regional. Pre scouting our next regional was of some value, but we had to have an elaborate algorithm to translating 2012 data to 2013. I suspect that this year's data will have little relationship to 2013 because the games are so different. Otherwise, we haven't found pit scouting of much value because the field scouts can see the most pertinent characteristics of the robots, e.g., wheels, drivetrain etc.