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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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This. Didn't 3138 win an award at the Championship last year for their IPA scouting system? Our scouting system (and our graciousness in sharing the system and data) was mentioned by the judges when we won the Chairman's award at Midwest this year. I believe our Chairman's presenters brought it up in the presentation or Q&A.
My concern with the "Scouting Award" is it will go to the teams that use fancy tablets or cell-phones and produce cool graphs and fancy statistics opposed to the more user-friendly, functional and practical systems. As Jon mentioned, the judges NEED to look how the team uses the data. There was one team that used video game controllers to scout, which seems to be a really innovative and award-winning system, but they team didn't create a picklist outside of 10-12 teams that stood out.
But, I guess that concern could be applied to the technical awards, too. You rarely see teams win awards for tank drives, even though they are arguably the best solution.