How did your scouting work?

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Team 254 had an excellent scouting team this year. I'm sure the "scouting czar" for our team aka Chuck can explain it all better than I but I'll give it a shot, as I was a scout for the team.

We made a really cool scouting form using Excel. Maybe Chuck or Justin can post the actual file sometime so teams can see how ours was. And also during the regionals and nats we had a laptop with us in the stands running a specially made Excel sheet where we inputted all of the stats we gathered after each match, so we had real time stats and rankings on hand. It really came in handy later when we had questions about how much a team was scoring. Anyways, basically we had a form for each team, where we had a section for pit scouting up at the top, then below that a spot to put stats, observations and ratings for the practice matches and quals. Each scout would scout one team during the match and fill out the form for the match. We would usually try to rotate each teams forms to different scouts for each match to try to get an unbiased opinion of the team. Then on friday night the whole scouting team met in a room in the hotel with the drive team and discussed stuff for saturdays matches and which teams stood out and stuff (possible alliances). Also which teams looked like they were having problems so we could go talk to them in the morning about the problems they were having so we could maybe help them fix it and stuff. On wednesday we also had our main photography guy go around and take Polaroids of each team in our division so we could tape the pics to the scouting forms. Everything worked out really well. I was really impressed with how everything worked out. A few teams even saw how serious we were scouting the quals and stuff (we had absolutely no spirit during the quals lol) and they asked to see our scouting form so we gave them copies

I hope our scouting team next year will be as good as the one we had this year.