Scouting at the championship

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Originally Posted by Eagleeyedan

In other words, you should probably scout. A word of wisdom though, scouting does you no good unless you relay that information to your drive team. You can have the best data in the world but never use it unless you designate someone to give it to the people who need it.

Scouting to give your drive team an edge is pretty huge. We've valued scouting for several seasons and have worked very hard to improve it year by year and from competition to competition. I've been fortunate enough to see all the revisions and see their impact on our team's performance. One of the biggest improvements we've made was incorporating processes and elements to our scouting system that get data to our drive team that they can easily understand and use to strategize effectively in qual and elim matches. Our drive team knows how the robots in their alliance and their opposing alliance like to score and like to drive prior to all their matches. I really believe that having that knowledge has had a positive effect on their performance. Towards the end of our regular competition season, sometimes I felt like they were playing like they could read the minds of their opponents. It sometimes looks like crazy voodoo from the stands - but it's not magic. It's just good driving, good teamwork, and good data.