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Think about how much time and energy teams put into scouting. You just suggested the people running the tournament do at least that much work to supply a snippet of talk between matches. Teams at IRI/Cheesy have a track record so you can talk a bit about them. Teams at a week 1 regional are more or less unknowns.
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I definitely didn't suggest that at all! From the post you quoted:
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30 seconds of analysis all possible by looking at the robots and reading the rankings.
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Also in that post was an example of the kind of depth of analysis I was talking about. Let's look at it again. The provided example blurb would be:
- Mentioning physical features of the robots present (you just look at them)
- Checking the percentage of matches the blue alliance robots have breached in (collected by FMS, so automatically supplied)
- Checking the auton averages for the two alliances (this is in the rankings)
- Looking at the places of the robots in the rankings
You can gather plenty of data and insight from a combination of looking at the robots, looking at data the FMS could just spit out for you, and some minor notes / memory / notable events. It isn't data strong enough to make a rigorous pick list with, but it doesn't have to be at all. It just has to be vaguely accurate and worth talking about, which isn't hard to do. I expect other than software this would require about 1 additional volunteer per event, which isn't trivial but isn't impossible either.