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Originally Posted by Shu Song
TWO MINUTES???? wow, kudos to the mods, they moved this thread with 2 minutes.
Anyway... scouting. I know there are a lot of software out by other teams for scouting. Depending on what regionals you go to, some teams also set up a scouting database for all teams to use over a WLAN, so any laptop with wireless can access it.
If you are not into all that technology, good-old paper and pencil will work just as well. Make you have scouts who not only get the basic specs of the bot, but also other things that aren't so objective. When it comes down to alliance selection or strategizing, the more subjective aspects of a team can become a lot more important than the acutal numbers.
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Yeap, one of those programs Shu is talking about is called, FIRST Scouting Network.
Pretty much what it's gonna have is a database of teams and match data collected by volunteers at regionals and eventually the championship. Anyone can get involved with it at this point, check
http://www.firstscouting.net/forum/ if your intrested. And watch in the coming weeks for more specifics on how the program is going to work. (Pretty much it'll have two sections, a Robot Scouting Form saying what kind of mechanisms a robot uses and how the robot works, and the second section is match data, people will report on how each robot does in a match (scores center, gets ramp bonus, plays defence well, corners ect.) all this information will go into a database and anyone can view it.