Make Scouting Fun?

[Ed Law]

Originally Posted by nickyflash

This explains our situation, but for us it wasn't that people had nothing better to do than scout, but that they couldn't do anything but scout.

I'm quite interested in hearing a response from a smaller team and how they manage to make scouting entertaining. For our small team, we have a scarcity of people; consequently, people are divided into the pit crew and the stands crew with almost no breaks. In the stands, six people are necessary at all times and unfortunately we don't have enough people for a full 2-set rotation.

We're still using a paper scouting system.

If you don't have more than 6 students, then you should use other scouting system rather than assigning one students per robot. Everybody needs a break regardless of whether they are motivated or not.