Lack of passion in scouting

[Spider-Man]

Well this year Team 467 changed the way we scouted.

On Thursday, every team member gets 1-2 robots that are competing at the regional. Each team member is responsible for going to the pits and gathering the vitals on his/her robots. Also, that team member is responsible for watching at least 2 practice matches involving his/her robots.

On Friday and Saturday, the setup changes as there is a select group of students and mentors that sit in the stands and watch matches. The method for information collection and delivery to the strategists is still being tweaked for Boston, but the basics are the same. We will have 3-6 students and some mentors keeping track of the basics of scoring ringers, getting bonus points, and defending for each robot. Comments are also welcome for clarifying performance.

In our strategy meetings on Friday night, we use the knowledge of our match watchers heavily, especially the feeling the person has about a team.

On a side note, some teammates and I found the picking at FLR to be almost from a bizzaro FLR. Some of the teams didn't have a good handle on how their picks would build the best alliance to win this year's game. I'm not going to single any teams out because that's not very gracious or professional, so I'm just going to emphasize that if possible, a team needs to know the robots available and how they fit into the three important categories for this game: ringers, bonus points, and defense.