Thread: So what's everyone's strategy/scouting plan for Nat's?
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Re: So what's everyone's strategy/scouting plan for Nat's?
Posted by Mike Soukup at 03/19/2001 10:43 AM EST


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In Reply to: So what's everyone's strategy/scouting plan for Nat's?
Posted by colleen - T190 on 03/18/2001 10:11 PM EST:



Since I'm not a coach, I don't know much about how the negotiations work. But I do know quite a bit about the scouting. Near the beginning we realized that there's not much value added by scouting other divisions since you'll never be paired with them in qualification and you can't pick them for elims. Even in the elims, you really don't even play against them, you play against their score. So as long as you know what scores the alliance is capable of getting (which you'd find out by watching their first round), you can plan your strategy accordingly.

At Nationals instead of scouting other divisions, we're asking other teams to use our scouting program (WASH) & to put the data they collect in our database, which is then available to all through SOAP. This way, with a little (ok a lot) of work before Nats, we can scout our division while our partners scout their divisions and we get full coverage (and so does everyone else in FIRST if they want to see our data).

Mike


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