[MegaSparks]

Scouting in general is very difficult with a large group of scouts. We try and take the subjectivity out of the scouting so we can get good data. As far as pit scouting is concerned this is important Thursday and possibly Friday. Keep the number of people doing the scouting small for consistency of data.

The standing is very subjective and depends on your alliance partners and their ability to play nice with you to achieve the end result. We have placed little weight on the placement as good teams have and will end up low in the ranking due to the luck of the draw and the "Murphy" factor. In our scouting report we do not include the final score or if the team won or lost. We base our scouting on raw performance.

Regards to not telling the truth. Some teams may exaggerate what their robot can do and this is to be expected especially if they are talking to a highly ranked team. This is why scouting the matches is so very important even through Saturday. In St Louis we scouted till just before the alliances were picked for the elimination round (and we were in 22 place at that time) and relayed any changes to the team rep getting ready to go on the field.