[Lisa Perez]

Having done multiple collaborations before (830-573, 830-201, 830-469), it is exponentially easier to use a database that is accessible to everyone because, if created properly, it can be readily updated for the strategists to work with.

If you must use a paper system, have one strategist from each team serve as a information runner to his or her respective drive team, instead of running the actual match scouting papers down to the pit. It's VERY difficult to let both drive teams have access to the match scouting papers.

Also, with the paper system, it is beneficial to have both teams plan to be in the same area Friday night, in the case that both teams may be in alliance picking position the next day and want to make their tentative pick lists.

It helps a lot to have one person in charge of the scouts throughout the competition to ensure that communication between the teams is optimal.

Make sure that you have a scouting meeting beforehand with both teams' scouts. You might have what seems to be the most self-explanatory system in the world, but you want to make sure that one team's interpretation of a game or design aspect is the same as the other's.