scouting

[Kpchem]

When I talk about my own "unique strategy" to the game, I mean what kinds of robots work well with my team and what I have observed works well at the competition. If it looks like 3 teams all trying to run and score tubes gets clogged up and messy and is not an advantage, I obviously don't want to do that. If defense looks like it will help more than a third scorer, I'll probably go with that. It's a very fluid strategy now, but by the time the end of the weekend roles around, between my observations and conversations with our drive team, it becomes apparent what combinations of robots will work best for us.

I'm not saying I don't collect any defensive data at all, but that the data cannot necessarily be compared to the offensive data because I seem them as two entirely separate aspects of the game. So we scout both sides of things, offensive and defensive, and then use both of those data sets together with our strategy, to pick the alliance we believe will work best.