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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis
My team has never, not once, used results from pit scouting for anything - the results you get from that never match up with the actual results from the field!
That said, it's a highly useful tool for us to use to force students to get out there and mingle, and learn a little about other robots!
This year might be a little different, though... asking teams which defenses they can handle (with appropriate followup questions to understand how they actually handle each defense) could be very useful, at least in the beginning. And depending on how things go, you may or may not see a team even attempt one or more specific defenses for the entire qual matches! Either the defense won't be on the field for some matches, or one of their alliance members will do it, or they'll tackle other ones first and get their RP without needing to touch it. It could be very interesting to see how that goes!
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I actually looked at the information from our Pit Scouting sheets at World's this last year. I stayed up all night before the elimination rounds and searched through all of our pit scouting sheets to see which robots could pick up a sideways can. We didn't have sufficient information regarding this from our match data. It heavily influenced the choice of our 3rd robot - who could pick up sideways cans beautifully. We were captain of our alliance and made to the finals in Curie. Our sideways-can-picking up robot made a huge difference for us.
I agree that Pit Scouting often is not very useful. It seems to be most helpful at the beginning of competitions when you have no data on a team - or - when you're desperately searching the night before eliminations for some extra information that could make a difference in competition.