Scouting was quite an experience for me this year, that's for sure. MVRT had a team of 6 students(including me) scouting each match, 1 per team on the field, with a leader supervising them. The leader did a great job making the scouting sheet, and was pretty reliable when they were needed to provide info for the team.
A problem I thought I was going to have was having to concentrate on one team, and I thought that would possibly not allow me to enjoy the matches, turns out I was wrong, dead wrong. Even when I was busy scouting matches, I still had the time to see the big picture of a match.
But the big surprise for the scouting team came on Friday at the Davis Sacramento Regional. We actually won the
Kleiner, Perkins, Caufields & Byers Entreprenuership Award partly because of how organized and hard-working we were in scouting. Of course there were plenty of other reasons for winning the award, but this one really stood out to us.
Scouting to us also meant having a meeting at the hotel that lasted til nearly midnight, trying to decide what course of action to take when it came to alliance selections. So overall, scouting kept me really busy, but it sure didn't stop me from having a great time at the regionals.
