paper: 2006 Excel Scouting database

[Graham Donaldson]

Hey everybody.

Greg, your database worked like a charm at the Palmetto Regional. It actually got us (a 2nd-year team) picked for I believe the 4th alliance and all the way into the finals. The information that you decided needed to be gathered was so helpful and useful because we knew exactly what robots could do ahead of time and therefore work out strategies for autonomous and the game before the match. The only real problem was that data entry is very time-consuming. I spent 2 hours when we got back to our hotel finishing putting in data for teams that we had to play the next day (this was on Fri). However, all in all, it was an amazing tool, it got us picked for the 2nd-place alliance, and it made a 2nd-year team realize how valuable scouting is, where it takes some teams 5 or 6 years!

Greg, I can't thank you enough.

The Canuck