[Boltman]

Originally Posted by rich2202

The purpose of scouting is to be able to pick an alliance for Eliminations.

Since Coopertition does not exist in Eliminations, there is no reason to scout it.

As I see it, the ideal alliance is: 2 stacking bots, and 1 utility bot.

One Chute stacking bot, and one Chute or Landfill stacking bot.
You know what your bot can do, so scout for the other two bots.

You also want an alliance team that can do the following in autonomous:
1) Move to the Autonomous zone;
2) Bring along an RC (worth more than totes, and those you want to leave off the field to keep them out of the way).
3) If a team can stack the yellow totes in autonomous, that is a bonus. Don't try for a tote set. Not worth the hassle yellow totes in the way.

For the utility bot
1) Can place the RC high (level 4 to 6)
2) Can move litter out of the way, but ideally to the landfill (each litter into the landfill is a 5 point swing).

Litter:
You want a person that is really good at throwing litter. If you find that person, make a note of which team they are on. Bonus points to that team.

Given the slow pace of the game, it is possible for one person to scout all 6 teams at once. You may not have all the detail, but you can assign a robot to a role, and give it a score for how well it does that role.

That's short sighted scouting not counting co-op, co-op bots have skillz