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Unread 26-07-2007, 22:39
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Re: Lack of passion in scouting

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Originally Posted by FoleyEngineer View Post
Give each scout an equal list of teams (hopefully well under 10) and have them ONLY scout those teams. They can visit their pits (i.e. if they tip over or seem to break something), but basically they only need to watch the matches "their" teams are in.
That's a really good idea. Like professional sports on TV, it's hard to watch teams you don't care about. The way we did our match scouting was just having three people sit up in the stands and observe two bots each, every match. They almost never care who won or lost. However, I'll bet that if our scouts actually cared about the matches they were watching, they wouldn't mind keeping track of them.

However, it was our rookie year, and we were so much more worried about drilling holes in our robot than quality scouting... Next year will most definitely be better.