[SammyKay]

Having been on drive team for the first two years of my time on team 316 and then being back up drive team this past year, I have to say that scouting is a HUGE part of succeeding in competitions. If you have a strong scouting team, then each match becomes slightly easier for you. Before each of our matches this year, we had one mentor who would come down and talk to our driver and tell her what our opponents had done in their last two or three matches. She would also tell our driver whether our alliance partners had broken down during a match or not so we could prepare ourselves for a loss of an alliance partner if it happened again. Even though many of us don't like to do match scouting, it is extremely useful for our team, especially if we modify our scouting techniques to fit the specific competition.