Scouting as an Aliiance Captain

[Dylannn]

My team's scouting usually does not change much depending on our rank. After collecting our data, we have a meeting with the scout team and team captains to discuss and organize our pick list. We make a pick list even if we are ranked very low, just in in case

[Sparky Jell-0]

Scouting for us usually consists of a team member volunteering to be scouting captain but recently we got an addition to the team who is project manager/quartermaster/scouting captain which is very useful. He made scouting sheets. 6 of those fit onto one page and that page becomes the scouting sheet for one team since most qualification matches consists of a team playing 6 matches max. The scouting captain has the schedule and hands out the scouting sheets to the six scouters and they just sit in the stands and scout. it was very helpful in our past offseason event as we got a fantastic black horse team in our alliance as the scouters noticed that they were great at defense. I would not recommend pit scouting as it doesn't give you the best idea of how their robot performs. And even if you aren't alliance captain, scouting is still good because if you get picked you can help your alliance pick the best possible robot.

[Ben Martin]

The only times we don't run a full crew of 6-8 in the stands is at an offseason event where we are understaffed or at events where we are scouting without any other teams and it is questionable whether or not we would make the eliminations. We may relax a bit on making an ironclad pick list if we are sure that we are a 2nd/3rd round pick at a high-end event like Worlds or IRI.

In all season events where we are very sure we will be a captain or first pick, scouting and pick list development run at 100%.