Scouting only half the field

[BotDesigner]

I am a member a relatively small team that has never made it into elims. This year we will attempt scouting for the first time (as far as I am aware). Since our team does not have a ton of people to spare I was wondering about the possibility of only scouting a single alliance of each qualification match. This would mean we would only need to have 3 scouts working in the stands at a time. Is this a terrible idea? And more importantly, if we only scout a single alliance color through the day, should it be blue or red?