Scouting at St. Louis

[Kevin Ray]

IMO the only real difference between the St. Louis and a given regional/divisional (other than a larger pool of robots) is the depth of the field. It seems that there is a dearth of quality high shooters this year, yet very many good breechers. The difference in these numbers is very important in the selection of an alliance in the elims. A robot's specialization is significantly more important this year than in years past. Because of the different role each robot may have on an alliance this year, we are happy that the number of good high goal shooters should be deep enough to have at least two on each of the 8 alliances in each division during elims. It is doubtful to find that in any regional or even divisional CMP this year.
Scouting at the Worlds should, in theory, be conducted in a similar fashion as you would at a regional/district, albeit more tiring since there will be more matches (assuming that we start on Thursday afternoon again). If you assign one/two people per robot in a regional/district, then you should do the same at the Worlds. Compiling at the end should be the same.