[Tom Line]

Our scouting team did the best they've ever done this year. They had paper sheets for each match with all the pertinent information - robot number, auton lines, pens, regular lines, hurdles, herds, even a map that showed the robot's course in autonomous.

Then they had a pre-made spreadsheet that they entered the data into and could sort with drop-down sort boxes. Finally, they had a couple folks going around taking pictures of all the robots. We viewed those pictures as we discussed each robot.

At MARC where we didn't have the resources to do a full scouting, we had 3 people watching what happened and feeding the info real-time to a person entering the data on the computer. That way we had it immediately sorted when team selections came right after the last match.

On thing that was helpful to me at MARC was that the formulas were set up to calculate average score in auton and normal modes over the course of the competition. So we were able to look at all-around good robots, and were able to see that some robots got by on the strength of their auton, and others the strength of their hurdling.