New System for Scouting?

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Originally Posted by notaPINKtruck

In our 10 years, The Pink Team has found paper scouting to be cumbersome.

My recommendation as a developer is against PDA scouting. While it seems convenient, its unlikely that enough team members will have PDAs (6) to scout fully, not to mention all of those PDAs running the same OS (PalmOS, Windows Mobile, etc.) Standard laptops are much easier to come by, or be borrowed just for competition periods (this is what we do), rather than purchasing team PDAs.

My advice is that paper is better. I believe it is way easier and managable for a newer team. At Indiana Robotics invitational (iri) pink had about 8 labtops lying around and it took up space and you have to bring all kind of cords and adapters to make sure you can get the laptops going and laptops can be distracting as well, distracting members from the copetition because members can be playing card games. If you use papers, you can have a sheet for each team in a small file folder run the 6 sheets needed to the pits to discuss stategy for the next match. I believe it is all around easier process. (we have used pdas as well)

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