[Josh Hambright]

I fully understand how your engineers may find it useful to get the information from people on your team but with the First SN (Scouting network) its fully open source. You can take as much as you want or as little as you want and give back as much as you want or as little as you want. One way that this information becomes really useful is if you weigh your teams judgement against other peoples observations, oftens times while scouting you will miss an important feature of a robot and it will come back and bite you in the butt during a match, but maybe someone else caught it but you missed it. Also the unified database will allow for teams to share match scouting that will save each individual team ALOT of time. And then there is always the chance you make it to nationals and suddenly in your division there are 80 teams and only maybe 15 of which you have seen in competition before. Thats a whole other scouting headache, but there are surely going to be other teams who have scouted them so you could save some time and maybe only scout certain teams in your division and then pick and choose the data your getting into your database from the big database to fill in the spots you missed.

Just my observations.