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Re: Web-Based Crowdsourced Scouting App for 2014

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Originally Posted by XaulZan11 View Post
Do you have experience running through an entire event using students' smart phones? Have you run into any problems with students' phones running out of battery and not being able to scout?
Smartphones work pretty well for the most part, we have run into this issue a little bit last year, but we plan to bring extra battery-powered chargers this year to remedy it.

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Originally Posted by Josh Fritsch View Post
Many venues also have issues with getting good cell-phone signal for data use
We ran into that once last year; but if we can get any signal at all, it is built to be very lightweight so that slow data connections should not cause issues.

(I will probably restructure team profiles so they don't have to load pictures)