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Re: Opinions of Q&A

Another value for pit scouting is apprising the team itself-- Edxu mentions making judgments on a team as whole, and I definitely see this as a value for pit/long term scouting. You can pick up a lot about a team by how they act around their pit, and that judgement, while it may not reflect on their robot performance, certainly may reflect on whether you want to work with them in a high stress environment such as eliminations.

This of course presupposes that your pit scouts can be trusted to make value judgments, which in my opinion is something somewhat rare to find in students (or people in general) naturally, but can be cultivated and trained in over time.
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