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Re: Strategy Sub-Team

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Originally Posted by jajabinx124 View Post
The definition of pit scouting in my book is asking teams questions about their robot that can't be answered through match scouting. Limit pit scouting to data your actually going to use(anything that can't be answered through match scouting) or in other words like you said, keep it simple(actual questions can be complex, but not redundant to what your match scouters are observing). Don't ask teams questions you can answer through match scouting because It'll be a waste of time and It'll be a pain on Friday night going through redundant pit scouting data.
I agree. The last two years we have done extensive pit scouting on a couple of elements that couldn't be discerned from the stands. Last year it was pass through time and reliability because many teams weren't doing this enough to get a good measure (and we walked around with a watch and clipboard). And this year of course we were looking for the ability to add cangrabbers. Perhaps the biggest plus was being able to get to know teams about a specific issue. We both got to know how amenable they were and also just simply connected. We now intentionally try to come up with a specific pit scouting task like this.
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