[Ken Leung]

First of all, I would like to thank those of you who spend so much effort into developing scouting database. Because of all your experience from the past years, I really believe we can come up with something great this year. You are the ones who've seen what's been done and what not to do. Hopefully we can have a more combined effort this year to make something amazing happen.

Here is what we should think about:

I think we should look at what kind of information we want. Obliviously, there are two categories: pre-competition and in-competition. As for the details, we will have to wait till the game come out.

Second, we should think about how are we going to use the information. Think about who's going to look at this data and make sense of it, and how it is going to help that person. Are those people going to use this to plan a game before it start? Or is it going to help them choose partners?

Third, come up with ideas about how to contact teams about this. Or in another words, promote this "scouting database" to people who don't know anything about it? We have got a lot of big names already, such as SOAP/WASH and GMCIA... I suggest take advantage of that.

Forth, come to some sort of agreement and decide how close we should work together. Obliviously we can't have everyone agree on everything. But is that really necessary? We aren't forming a team and forced to do this together. Chances are, we are going to do this database at our own regional. We should work together so that there won't be too many databases out there to cause confusion for others. If we are able to form a few main ones around different regions, we can get a lot of teams to submit their info to one of the database... Let's work together, not against each other.

Finally, we have to realize this isn't a competition to show which one of us is the best in this. We all have been through this, and realized how much works it take to make this happen... I really hope this will really become a group effort, not just many one-person teams out there burning out.

I suggest we have a scouting database forum in here beside from the existing ones. That way we can really concentrate our discussion in there and prevent any off topic discussion in there.