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Originally Posted by Igreenman

Our team spent more time talking about this than I would have like; however we came to the conclusion that most conventional questions are pointless. It is very easy to talk to people in the pits and tell them how good your robot is but its totally different to prove it on the field. So, this season we are not going to spend a lot of time in the pits but have six scouter in the stands and watching every bot out there to see how they perform, for the simple fact that words only mean so much. Frankly wheels do not matter, frame doesn't matter, drive does not matter, but how a team uses these thing is the most important. A team could have the worst set up but still be an amazing robot. As for pit questions the only reason that we say to ask about others bots (other than interest) is to see how well it is put together and how it could fail and/or to see if they could get called for anything in the match like popping a ball. Hope someone find this useful and if you would like I will upload a copy of our scouting sheet.

AMEN!
My team seems to think that walking around in the pits and asking ridiculous questions is scouting...I believe this is because they find it more fun than doing the necessary real work in the stands. I do think that some "public relations" is necessary, but data is obtained by watching matches and seeing what robots can do. Taking that data to conversations with other teams is analysis and shows alliance leadership.