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Originally Posted by FrankenmuthK
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Since other people have already covered general the problems with asking people what their robot does, here's a critique of the individual items:
Drive system: Many types of other. You may want to consider differentiating between 6wd and swerve for example, or adding a box for a typed in choice. Whole field is much less useful than for most games though.
Feeder bot: What is a feeder bot? And why are tote and bin mutually exclusive?
Can it stack totes/max tote stack: Consider changing yes/no + 1-6 into 0-6.
Can it stack a bin/highest stack for a bin: Same as w/ totes. Additionally, "bin" is ambiguous. Totes are often called bins in everyday speech.
Auto: Seems like need more than the four options. Some of them aren't mutually exclusive, and there's no indication of the number of items moved.
Something that I would add is that you should consider taking pictures or noting something about the appearance that people will recognize it by. That way if people are trying to figure out what team number a robot belongs to they have a way besides wandering around all the pits.
Another general remark I have about pit scouting is that if hand random students a form to do pit scouting some of them will just get focused on answering the exact questions on the form and not really make the best use of the opportunity to talk to other teams about their robots. Talking to people about how their robot works is a great opportunity to meet people and to learn about techniques that might be useful in the future. For example, one year got to talk to someone from 1023 about the interesting multi-step molding process that they used to build their wheels. It also gives you a look at how teams run things differently at the competition.