[Matt Keller]

In Florida, we used a very confusing, and at times complex paper system which was very tedious and annoying. Surprisingly, our scouts held in there and managed to gather some quality data. Unfortunately, it was quite difficult to analyze on the spot to assist our strategy, so a lot of it was a waste until we returned to the hotel Friday evening.

In Las Vegas, I had little intentions of convincing such a small group to commence with scouting, but some down time on Thursday prompted me to whip up a very quick and simple web-based entry form and later, a very simple "match selector" which would provide a formatted page of some statistics and notes on each team of an alliance. The results were amazing for such a simplistic system, and the scouts were actually enjoying what they were doing. By Saturday, our information on each team was relatively accurate and detailed enough to be used to formulate reliable strategies. Several alliance printouts yielded critical data that was utilized to assist in strategy.

I am spending this week to strengthen the system I developed in Las Vegas to be used in Atlanta. It will hopefully influence our strategy in monumental ways and give us better results in the long run. If it is decent enough, I may offer a distributable package this weekend. Additionally, we were tossing around the idea of a collaborative network of scouting data in Atlanta if any teams were interested in our system. If I get enough requests, I can easily make it happen. I shall release more information as it unfolds.