[Netrilix]

We thought we would have some trouble with scouting, given the fact that we realized more than half of our scouts were lost to Vex at the last minute. We pulled through pretty well by doing a few key things.

Our freshmen were trained to scout at regionals, and we could see then and there which ones would be into it and which ones would give us nothing for scouting sheets. Though we lost them for the first two days (Vex), we had them scouting Friday night for a while. In addition, we had 3 senior members scouting the entire time. I handed each of them one team per match to fill out a sheet for, and we ended up with at least 2 matches for most teams.

Basically you can get enough scouting with three people who will be working hard, as long as you trust these people to do what you ask them to.

I had also coded a nice system over the build season that allowed us to enter teams and match info, and then it would generate averages for each team in each catagory I selected. We focused mainly on tetras stacked, with a little focus on whether or not they did well in autonomous. Other than that, we mainly looked at the comments section of our scouting sheets. Stuff like "tipped over" and "very impressive but blocked most of the match" really help.

For next year, I'm thinking I might make my scouting system public, with logins for each team to enter their own information and view the teams they had looked at. I would have this year, but it just wasn't coded to allow that.