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Originally Posted by Ian Curtis

I don't think the answers to pit scouting questions have ever been particularly well correlated with robot ability. It seems the way psychology works your best match somehow becomes what you remember as average. Folks don't do it to be devious, they just honestly don't know how well their robot actually performs.

What happens on the field is the truth, everything else is subject to be Best Available Data.

Absolutely. A robot may perform better or worse than the pit/drive team anticipate on the field, and data you personally collect tends to be more accurate than what a team may tell you in the pit (not usually their fault). This is true every year. Personally, I like to speak to every team anyway, whether or not we are in a future match with or against them, because even if we never play together our robots and drive teams may complement each other enough to form a successful alliance in playoffs.