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Originally Posted by Ginger Bread
How does your team go about scouting when it seems likely that you will be an alliance captain?
My team has never been an alliance captain so our scouting usually consists of mostly pit scouting with printed Excel sheets.
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It starts week one of build season during our strategy sessions when we create a full elimination alliance game outline. It's our best guess at that time and it may change some as we learn more about the game.
Going into a regional we use this alliance plan to choose scouting data we need to make the pick list. Be prepared to be flexible if the event doesn't have enough robots to fill out your imagined bracket.
Bottom line, you don't scout to be a captain. You plan your robot strategy from the first week to be the captain. If you don't make the top 8, the strategy process should help you determine what the other captains would need.