Lack of passion in scouting

[65_Xero_Huskie]

Originally Posted by nikeairmancurry

I for one worked my tush off scouting , by the end of the first day i had every team scouted for the Great Lakes Regional. I also had about 80% of pictures of all the different bots. i did notice some teams having no idea what things on there scouting sheets meant and also teams that weren't prepared and just had a lined piece of paper to write on. To the fact of a lack of passion for the game and for the team... if a person is scouting and dosn't show any enthusiasm then it really affects the look of the team. I am from team 326 and I express my concern in this field. Scouting is a major part of the competion and w/out it, really gets rid of the spirt and dedication to all of FIRST. To all of you who didn't care about scouting and showed no enthusiasm. I am appalled by the teams that came up to me and admited they had no idea what stuff on their scouting sheet meant. Not to undermine any teams but a lot of teams sent out people who weren't doing anything and were just there to mess around. U are right to say that a lot of teams showed no effort but there were a select few who did and i thanked. By scouting u represent your team and the inspiration of FIRST.
-Adam-

At GLR we had some computer->printer probelms so we couldnt print. Me and an engineer went out to circuit citys and best buys trying to find a driver for our computer (wanted to charge us $30....) So after about 2 hours of nothing, we finally come back and ask the staff at the venue if they could print something for us. they printed a copy and we made copies off of those. a few of our members were stressed out to the extreme because we couldnt get it to work. Our team has alot of passion for scouting because we believe that this is the reason matches are won. I know that last year at nationals scouting helped us win our first elimination match. I really hope people take scouting seriously becasue it is one of the most important things in FIRST competitions.