Tips for Team Promotion to Scouts

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Originally Posted by LeadU2Fun

Jim,

We don't have the student power to have our own "scouting team" yet. It would be interesting to get those stats from one of the large higher seeded teams. Do you know anyone that has them. We followed teams we knew personally and saw them get picked even though it didn't seem like they performed on the field and had technical issues. When we were alias in a match they tipped easily trying to balance in coopertition since they had never balanced. We had multiple balancing bonuses and a coopertition balance. But the quantifying statistics by team would help. The android app only added up the alliance scores for each category for each match the team was on and not the actual performance of the team. If you know anyone that has them it would be nice to see and use as a training for my team to do scouting next year. Thanks.

Ask for collaboration with a neighboring team at your next regional (through some blue alliance research, I'm guessing next year). Granted you guys have to share data, you now have twice the manpower literally at your hands and the ability to gather solid data. Besides, it's a great opportunity to make friends and solidify your relations with other teams.

As for promotion- SELL YOUR ROBOT (AND I DON'T MEAN LITERALLY ). Create the opportunity. Put your robot above the others.

As many others had said to me, you can't just go up and say our robot is a great match for you guys. You have to sell on your best aspects of the robot (in this case, it just seems that you guys have the solidity of everything- which amazing!). Some of the best robots fly under the radar simply because it doesn't look good or the team just didn't have substantial scouting data. I have a vague suspicion that your robot and team went under the radar because of both. In short, SELL!!!

Hope this helps for next year!