[Jimmy Cao]

Scouting will take more more resources, and more "training" this year.

Last year, you could rather easily count the # of balls a team scored, and that would be a decent representation of that team's offensive ability. Granted you can still do that this year, it would be 1) more difficult to count, and 2) (IMO) a less accurate representation of the team as a whole. I would think that it would be useful to somehow judge how easy teams get scored on. Ex, if a robot scores 20 balls/match, but always manages to get its own trailer filled, then maybe a robot that scores 15/match but manages to only pick up 1 or 2 balls/match would be a more helpful partner.

Another thing that can play a more significant role this year is Human Player ability. That might be even harder to notice.

Most importantly, however, is that the scouts need to know what they're looking for, and as long as you have a few people getting good, useful data, then I think scouting won't be an issue.