[tjcasser]

I think the best thing our team did with our scouting this year was not so much a strategy-based evaluation of each team ("Team X always goes for their left side") as much as a simple statistical route ("Team X seems to score at least one ring per match on the bottom tier.") The app we wrote helped greatly with the analysis portion of the scouting, since it meant not leafing through hundreds of pages of paper notes, and helped us quite a bit as the Chesapeake went on.

And of course, it helped that we had easy stats on scoring to help us on Saturday with the choices for alliance partners.

The downsides for us, at least, were a lack of enthusiasm in scouting at times (which seems hardly limited to our experience) and a lack of thorough pit scouting, but I'm confident that the scouting team will work out the bugs for Atlanta. And then it's on to planning for next year!