[selenite]

In the past we have tried both electronic and paper scouting, but so far neither way has been effective since our scouting information doesn't usually make it to alliance pickings. Someone is usually still walking around with the clipboard or computer. However, this year we were thinking of trying something slightly different. We want to have one master sheet to keep in our pit with a list of all the teams attending the regional and several columns such as "drive train", "scoring", "performance", etc. In addition, we would like to duplicate this sheet and send it out with several people: around the pits, in the stands. Occasionally our scouts will report back to the pit area and add their information to the sheet. That way we hope to have a good idea of what each robot does and how well it performs. And when it is time for the fateful alliance pickings, whoever our team representative is can just grab the master copy and won't have to look for it. To my knowledge we haven't done this before, so unfortunately I cannot say it is a tried-and-true method, but we have high hopes, as always.