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Why are you using so much technology? Is it necessary to provide real-time scouting to the people back home? I don't think anybody will know the competition better than the people in the stands, and matches are spaced out enough that the scouts will always have enough time to put something together for the driveteam. We simply made an Excel spreadsheet to organize our six scouts' data. Then I made a GUI to output data to a text file to copy and paste into the master sheet. The benefits were that it was easy, and even though we didn't have enough laptops, we could use a PDA which had Excel on it to do the same job.

But on topic: We had 5 laptops of various sizes and a PDA, and none of them survived an entire day. We had an extension cord with 3 plugs at the end, and we had to regularly switch which devices got to charge. I would never rely on batteries to last the entire day, no matter what kind of netbook you get, but there is always power to be found in the arena. Bring long extension cords.