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Originally Posted by grstex
If scouting and scout positions are so important, then why not have a few students on standby as "backup scouts" who sit in the seats of your main scouts while they're taking a break? Signal/text your backup, they take your seat, you get a break.
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We do already employ this in the stands more or less. Everyone at the event has a job to do and if you aren't doing something in the pits or presenting you are in the stands ready to be one of our 8 scouts every match. So we don't have much coming and going in the stands with the main exception of the non-drive team pit crew.
I feel the need to clarify what we do as a team in the stands to "save seats". Almost all of our team except the pit crew arrives at the venue an hour or more early so they are some of the first people in the door. When they get in they find a good spot in the stands and fill into a block of seats leaving a few scattered seats open, usually in the middle of whatever rows we are occupying as well as a few on the end of the row(s). Most people generally feel weird about sitting down in the middle of a group of people but are fine sitting on the end for a while to watch some matches. If someone wants to sit down with us we won't tell them no unless whoever was sitting there will be right back, most people are fine with that. This gives us at least some ability to sit as a group with a few of us coming and going periodically while not being rude about it. For lunch we will cycle the group out about half or a third at a time to keep the block of seats mostly occupied in order to discourage people from taking over the seats and protect the tablets and computers we use for scouting. While it may not overtly be saving seats, it is technically saving seats. So far herd mentality has been the best approach that we have come up with.