[Wetzel]

From my experience last year scouting at nationals.
A agree with you on the objective/subjective questions.
Some of what we did was to have 4 people at (most) every match to watch one of the teams. They would sit and watch 4-5 or more matches, and runners took the papers to our ‘command post’ out in the food. This data was then manually transferred to a laptop database. This is a fairly mind numbing task, data entry, and I like the idea of the Palm program. How easy was it to use. As in make a customized data table?
The paper was nice though, because we kept it all in a binder in order (a big one). So when there where major discrepancies, we could pull the paper and compare them. Sometimes we paid more attention to one or another because of who did which one.

But over all, depending on how flexible the Penddragon software is, it may be something to use. We already used a Palm program during matches to keep score, and I think we could rustle up a couple of palms...

Practicing sleep depravation now, for when January comes....