Competition Scouting

[Ryan Dognaux]

I know last year at Nats, some of the people from Team 45, other teams (sorry I can't remember) and us all kinda worked in shifts on palm pilots. There was a program already on it, and we just filled it out, then the info was loaded onto a computer. Now if there were only some kinda huge effort that involved many teams... Soap is a great resource!
Anyways, the only problem I find about scouting is that everyone has different views and different a basis to judge robots on. Some may give a bot a 2 in a certain category, while another person may give it a 4 in the same category. We also had a hard time getting all the info together in a presentable, easy to read format last year. However, I think this year will be better since last year was our first year to really actually scout the entire time