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Re: Opinions of Q&A

In my experience, pit scouting is almost entirely worthless when it comes to assessing a robot's capabilities, because teams lie, and lie, and lie. Not on purpose...they just tell you what they tried to design their robot to do, not what it actually can do--for that, you have to see it on the field.

Where pit scouting can be useful is in assessing drive trains. For example, knowing that a robot has Rhino tracks might be difficult under bumpers this year, but will be easy to see in the pits, so you'll know to push those particular robots sideways if you're defending against them.
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