[danshaffer]

I find that Thursdays are useful for pit scouting, and then Friday/Saturday for match scouting. Team8 did this at both of our regoinals, and it was awesome. It was a lot of work, especially because we usually had six people, one watching each robot. Then, when we got back to the hotel, we did data entry until 1am. Laptops would probably have been a better idea, but we just didn't have enough.
I feel like PDAs can be a little bit awkward, just because you're dealing with a small screen, plus they can be expensive, or the old ones just aren't very good. The PC is just an easier platform to develop for.

Something I'd like to see a movement towards would be a massive data collection cooperative effort across all regionals. I think there was a system like this at Championships this year. I envision some sort of web-based system that would allow for some sort of redundant data collection and organization. Even match results are hard to come by for some regionals. Of course this would rely on reliable wifi at regionals, but I'm curious to know what kind of interest there is in a wide-scale data management system.