How did your scouting work?

[Heretic121]

scouting...

the basis of scouting comes from your eyes, and nothing else... no words or phamplets or flyers can make up for what your eyes see from the bot and drivers on the field... You can't look at rankings or QP's or alliance points per match, but only individual #'s for that team... The absolute best thing to do is look at teams from thier match to match performance rather than just 1 match *which might have happened this year at nats with a lot of good teams not picked*

that is just the basis... from my list... i was pretty down on the 7 top picks, my # 8 didnt go, and about 4 of my 9-16 went and only about 2 of my 17-24 went... where as from BAE over 19 of the 24 i had on my list were chosen... *by my list i mean the teams list *... that number alone should show how diffrent the scouting was at nationals compared to BAE and regionals at that...

*note our core scouting team at BAE was about 2-3 people and Nats was 4-6 people...

[Francis-134]

There were only two real scouts on my team with a host of other people that off and on helped us out. One person (me) would go around on Thursday and fill out sheets on every team. The sheets included information about a team's arm, end effector, drivetrain and how well they did at regionals. At this same time, my counterpart in the stands would, with the help of some other team members, count the number of tetras each team managed to stack in a match. After I had finished all my sheets, I would help him out with the counting. At one point, it was three teams per person (one alliance for him, one for me). This continued through all the practice matches and the qualification rounds. In the end, it allowed us to easially see who we were up against, and get a very accurate list of teams for picking.

[IronVulture]

234's scouting is done all by sight, we make a sheet for each team and record their personal match points, robot feature, and comments. It works really well if you have a sizable enough team. Give each scouter a clipboard with anywhere from five or six or ten to eleven team sheets. Be careful past that though, because if somebody has more than one team in a match it gets pretty hectic to try and keep track of both robots. The primary problem with this is that then you have several people pinned to the stands at any given time. This keeps people who could be working in the pit or talking to other teams from doing so. We've had drafting problems with people not knowing of us before from this, so who knows?

Ask Dognaux about it though, if you want serious scouting organization. He's the lead scouter and I guarantee he knows more than me.