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Re: Your Scouting System
Our scouting system this year is AMAZING. We begin on Thursday, where our team goes around the pits and asks other teams basic information about their robots and takes pictures. Also beginning on Thursday, we have 6 people up in the stands who watch the teams during their practice matches. Each person takes a team and records their moves on her computer. The moves are relayed to a master computer, which calculates the next best move for the team to make.

We do the same type of scouting on Friday and Saturday, and we've found that our scouting system is more accurate at ranking teams rather than the FIRST rankings. All in all, it's a pretty sweet program.
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