[Citrus Dad]

Originally Posted by evanperryg

Generally, we have finished the entire scouting system by week 4 of build, and only make minor changes after that point. So, during week one of competitions, prospective scouters come to a Saturday morning meeting where they learn to scout by watching the live stream of some week one event. This is a great time to assess how well the system works, and to see who on the team should be a scouter at events. Generally, qualitative scouters are students that did quantitative for an entire prior season, who did an outstanding job and have a very strong understanding of the game. Qualitative scouters require no special training, just occasional guidance from one of the scouting leads as to what they should look for. What we ask them to look for can vary event to event or even hour to hour, but there are a few basic things that they always know to look for- deadbots, repeated and egregious penalties, things like that that almost immediately put any team on the DNP come Friday evening.

Our system is similar. We wish we had it built by Week 4...