Seats at Championship

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Originally Posted by Conor Ryan

This brings up a very different question.

Do teams need to change the way they scout?

I think sitting in the stands with a "scouting system" and watching every single match, trying to track the way every point is scored is terrible, and that data is of very little use to drivers/coaches/alliance captains at the end of the day. There are other, bigger questions that scouts should be much more worried about.

Quit torturing the scouts!

I am guessing a lot of teams are duplicating a majority of the data they take (how many penalties a robot commits, how many objectives a particular robot completes, etc). This is a wonderful opportunity to crowdsource the statistics on a web app or something, but the crowdsourcing idea runs into problems OTHER than not having internet at the venue.

If every team thinks that other teams will be recording the statistics, you end up with a dearth of contributors. Some teams will not want to put their scouting trust in a system of other teams. If the system/app goes down everyone participating loses their statistics, etc.