2015 - A New Kind of Scouting?

[Steven Donow]

Originally Posted by AutodeskGeek

I would disagree. There's no reason you shouldn't scout the opposing alliance robots for the same reason you would scout your own partners. You need to know about them just as much as you need to know about your own teammates, because they could be your teammates in the future.

I think what he's saying is that when you're coming up with your gameplan for every match, you don't need to be aware of what your opponent is doing(until finals). You don't need to say, 'oh well opponent robot will be the main scorer, opponent robot will play heavy defense, etc...'

Originally Posted by forbes

R2 requires large visible team numbers from every angle- don't think it will be very hard to see.

I like this. I expect plenty of teams to miss it and hope that it gets enforced to the point that teams that miss it will have to have large, ugly paper printouts of their number on their bot.