Scouting, is it important?

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by rcmolloy

Extremely well put Eric. I personally believe that scouting is about 70% of you winning the match. The other 30 is from performance and human error. This year tested the ways of scouting much more because of the various ways the robots could play. I believe it's like not just an advantage over other teams but also the best possible way to have your team succeed.

Extremely well put here! Two extremely good robots cannot just walk onto a field and play to win. For example, one very good robot who plays strictly near cannot pick another strictly near robot who is also extremely good just because they score tons of balls, you will just end up with a really bad mid zone robot with a good near zone robot getting torn apart.

One thing our team added this year was time in each zone to determine where a robot likes to play.