2015 - A New Kind of Scouting?

[ThunderChief]

There is no need to Scout for other teams' weaknesses to make a plan of how to beat them.
The most important Scouting is to find those other teams that complement your own features for the Playoffs. And to Scout your future Qualifying Match alliance partners to see what they do and how they do it.
The huge difference in playing against the clock is that in the Playoffs, Alliance #8 does not have to beat Alliance #1 to get into the semi-finals, etc. There is more hope that any Playoff Alliance Captain can build the perfect complementary set of 3 robots to maximize the scoring.
I would say that Scouting is even harder and more important than usual.