[smclean1969]

I recommend you think about why you're scouting in the first place and then set up your scouting strategy around your objectives. You say you've never made it to the elimination rounds, so that seems like a pretty good goal to start with. That means you really want to have a solid enough robot that one of the alliances pick you as a partner--sorry for the assumption that if you haven't made it to the eliminations that you won't be an alliance captain. As an alliance captain it's a completely different approach.

So, use your scouting to improve your alliance performance during the matches. One way you could do this would be to look at your team's upcoming matches and figure out who your alliance partners are. Then watch and write down their performance to determine what they're good at. More importantly, it's key for your team to know what you're good at and be honest and realistic about it. It really hurts a team's credibility if they say "we can shoot 90% in the top goal" and then they maybe get a single shot in the top goal.

Use the scouting to build your team strategy--who's going after the defenses, who's shooting, is it realistic to collect the extra ranking points, etc.... Most of all--have fun and be a good alliance partner.

Best of luck.
Scott