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Originally Posted by Not2B
If you are short on manpower, skip the pits. Most robots are SUPPOSED to do this-or-that. Watch the matches and take GOOD notes - about what the robot REALLY does.
Quantify if possible. "Really good", or "sometimes has trouble" are not that useful. Cap cap 7-8 tetras per match, or tetra reload take 34 seconds - more useful.
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I'll second all of the suggestions already said so far. However, (I know that at least for my team) if we ask another team what their record was so far that year, the students in the pits sometimes cannot remember.
So I discovered a simple way to scout the FIRST Database.
Since most competitions have some sort of unofficial WiFi set up, accessing the Internet is easy. Go to the internet and go to Google. Type in
site:www2.usfirst.org/2005comp/ xxxx and replace xxxx with a team number. (If you want to scout a different year, change the '2005' in
2005comp to whatever year you want to search. If you want to search every year, delete the
2005comp/ part.) In less than a second, Google will find everything that a particular team has accomplished that year, from rankings at regionals, to win/loss records, to what awards a particular team won. See
this example in which I searched for records about my team if you are confused. Used with
SOAP 108, (if available for a competition), one can scout teams' performances at previous competitions easier.