Scouting, is it important?

[jamie_1930]

I was having this discussion with another teammate today, is scouting important? I'm interested to see what you guys think and I'm pretty sure for a lot of you the immediate thing is "He's crazy, how can you not love scouting!?", so let me explain myself first.

First off I'm the Drive Team Captain for my team, 2228, and I have been for since the beginning of last season. To this date I have yet to find any of our scouting information useful during competition. It's much more useful, I find, to have a few good eyes out there watching the games and then before each match I'll discuss it with them briefly and find out if there is anything they've seen that I haven't or if they think we need to watch out or don't have to worry about at all. Plus for the past several years for scouting we've made up our sheets, and constructed our database, then at competition we make up a schedule and have every team member rotate in sitting there and circling in bubbles like they're taking a test instead of enjoying themselves at the competition. I think it be much better if we just did away with scouting.