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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
Which of you have intentionally brought up your scouting system to judges before? Most judges afford you the opportunity to talk about anything interesting they might not have directly asked you about, so it's possible for you to inform them about the dilligence or innovations in your scouting system, and how it impacts your strategy/performance. If it impressed them enough, it could very well had tied into a "Judge's Award" or even a couple technical awards you were already being considered for (namely Quality or Creativity).
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Up to this point I believe most pit crews, who talks with the judges, both don't understand scouting system well enough, including its importance, and view the scouts as being less worthy. Let's be honest--most students are in FRC to build and work on robots, not to sit in the stands and scout matches. Certainly most of our scouts would rather be on the pit crew, justifiably so. So I can't expect pit crews to extoll the scouting system over the quality of the robot build. Most often I've seen the Judges Award given to teams that have virtuous robot designs that weren't the top in the individual categories, but maybe the best overall.