By the book: wifi-less scouting?

[Ben Martin]

Originally Posted by jasongb

...so if we want to comply fully with the rules (Section 4.15 states "Do not arrange for Internet access or phone lines on the site or attempt to connect to the Internet."), we should refrain from using 'hot-spot' technology to enable our scouting team to hit the internet - right?

That puts us in the position of counting on the venue's wifi if we want to use a scouting tool that's internet-based. If that fails, we can certainly fall back to a paper-based system, but that's less than ideal.

Has someone already developed a bluetooth-based scouting app? Or something that provides a similar real-time aggregation of scoring information?

Thanks!

I used a Pocket PC and laptop system with bluetooth connection in 2008 when I was on 234. The Pocket PCs created individual Excel workbooks for each team in each match, then that data was sent to the laptop to process the data in a larger Excel workbook.