"Pre-Scouting" w/ pics, by regional, to share

[Digo]

Last year Manoel and I built and printed a little "scouting book" for the Newton Division in the National Championship to handle for every team in that division. There were pictures of most of the robots, information about their functions and the awards and competitions each team won.

I hope we can do that for the regional this year too (we will be in Philadelphia) and I hope other teams do that for their regionals too.

I have SEARCHed the forum and found similar things, but they were not the same.

I think it shouldn't be very formal, with a given date to do it, but the teams must be concerned (or at least aware) about that.

When you play 2 vs. 2 you must know well your ally and your opponents in order to organize a good strategy and do your best.

The picture and the information about the robots could be obtained from each team after the building season, I think, so they wouldn't worry about people "copying" their ideas

And of course things won't be extremely exact. Sometimes your team doesn't know what your robot will be able to do after you send it to the competition, and in that case how can you explain it to other people?? But that's not usual.

Saying all that in few words:

I think teams from each regional should talk to the other ones to organize a collection of pictures and informations about all the participating robots after the build season and organize them in a document so every team can download it, print it and take it to the competition (and than just update it a little bit while walking through the pits). The object of this is to help every team to know each team they are going to play with so we will have higher level games.

What do you think?

Digo

PS: so bad people won't read this because it shouldn't be in the General Forum.