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Originally Posted by Citrus Dad
We have two types of pit scouting, and we don't leave these to random members of our team:
1) Pictures of the robots to use for ID purposes in our scouting. This done before competition starts by a trained team member. Smile! 
2) Evaluation of specific metrics, including bring measuring devices and other equipment. This is done by senior team members (often subteam leads) and mentors. This is usually done during the competition on a subset of teams. |
Very similar to what we do. Always check TBA first to see if there's a picture of the robot we can easily get without having to get pictures at the event. This season, we're cutting back pit scouting a lot to only contain the basic metrics we need for filtering of teams. Once we know if there's any specific questions we want to ask certain teams, that happens late friday or early saturday. When doing this, I usually wear a black sweatshirt over my team shirt to keep answers unbiased and to make sure I don't cause any false pretenses.