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Originally Posted by jarowe

Concentrate on what you're alliance partners are best at.- When preparing scouting reports for the drive team, it's important to know what your opponents can do, but don't focus on it. Using examples from Triple Play: If you know going into a match that one opponent is great with the auto loader, let them use it and don't get in their way. If their manipulator is inconsistant, but they have a stable drive base, you can suggest they focus on defense. (That's not to say you shouldn't know which teams they should defend against)

Take pictures of all the robots. Have your head scouts try to watch most of the matches, and then use the pictures when preparing a scout report for the drive team. This way, if you don't have match data for a robot, or it's incomplete, chances are, the picture will remind you of what you saw. At the very least, you'll be able to see what kind of manipulator it has, and you'll be able to draw some conclusions that way.

Great example. My team has done databases for scouting and paper scouting and this year we did both. I think it's important that you have knoweldege and good people doing scouting, if you don't bad data will come and the best pic's for you team won't be made.