[EricH]

Originally Posted by Tetraman

Will scouting always be some kind of "secret weapon" that teams must do on their own?

Each team is looking for something different. As such, they will want different data about the same robot.

That said, if two or three or more teams were to collaborate on scouting, nobody would look askance at it. However, the data would need to be shared equally, and the work done roughly evenly, if possible. (Or, a pre-arranged agreement made, something along the lines of, we'll provide X students to help you gather data, in exchange for Y data set that you're already collecting.)

By the way, I do know that in the past, 330 has allowed teams access to what our scouting data showed about their performance. 1114 does somewhat of the same thing by releasing their scouting report before the Championships.