The coach should make sure they know the other robots and teams as well as the scouts do, if possible. One very useful thing this year on our team was that the scout leader (me) and the coach are very good friends and work well together. She made sure to get information from me on each of the five teams before every match, and we would work out the strategy together with the drive teams of all three alliance members. This method worked particularly well because I ended up memorizing each team number, name and information and could spout off any team's status/tendencies/stats/possible strategies instantly. I like to think that several match outcomes were turned in our favor because of this coach-scout-strategy relations, but perhaps I'm biased.
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"There's no finer engineering than pit engineering." -kaszeta
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