[Lisa Perez]

Joe,

It helps a bunch to split it with a team you have good connections with in your division. In 2005, 573 and 830 did scouting together, and in 2006, 830 and 201 did scouting together. Each team had a certain task list; for example, mine was in charge of last year's photos, half of the pit scouting, and half of the match scouting.

One thing to keep in mind, if you do choose to do collaborative scouting, is that you want the data to be as objective as possible, since each team may have a different idea of what is good versus what is excellent, and so on.