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Originally Posted by Boltman
This year it'll be more important to find out what defenses teams can't cross as that won't be posted most likely.
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Chances are if a team can cross one of two defenses in a group it can cross the other, with the exception being the cheval de frise/portcullis that requires a separate mechanism from the drive train that differs between the two obstacles. You can see if they have that very quickly by looking at their robot during pit scouting. Pit scouting in general however is often times very useless as it often fails to obtain reliable information, something that will especially be an issue this year (last year in Utah I believe I had 20 teams or so that told me they could do a full autonomous mode/they were capable of it when in reality only one team had that capability). In terms of match scouting what you look at is more of speed/point efficiency during a match and other ways that the robot either succeeds or fails. This includes a large amount of "number of _____ per match" statistics. The most important part of scouting is that you focus on qualities that you would want in an alliance partner/what you want to avoid. A robot's performance in a match is the only way to tell how good it actually is. Even things like videos can be misleading, high shooters this year may appear very accurate in videos, but when a team hits a match they could be unable to align their robot in a way that they could get that shot off.