"Best" Pit Scouting Questions

[pabeekm]

This thread is in honor of all those impressively irrelevant or hilariously phrased pit scouting questions we've heard at competition. Please post any you've heard or would love to ask. Have fun with this!

Examples:
"How many linear feet of zip ties are on your robot?"
"Is it boy or a girl?"
"If you were to compare your robot to an unladen swallow, would it be African or European?"


Props to my teammate Chase for coming up with the idea for this thread.

[FrankJ]

What is the weight of your code?

How many bits do you use?

How many wheels is your mechanum drive?

[Whippet]

"On a scale of 1 to 10, how good do your bumpers look?"

[xXhunter47Xx]

not really a "best" question, but rather a little embarrassing.
Them: "Did you use Windriver or Netbeans for coding?"
Me: "We used Labview"
Them: "...oh"

[ehfeinberg]

Originally Posted by Whippet

"On a scale of 1 to 10, how good do your bumpers look?"

This is a serious question... We have it on our pit scouting question sheet.

[joelg236]

Originally Posted by ehfeinberg

This is a serious question... We have it on our pit scouting question sheet.

I hope you don't ask them. haha

[ehfeinberg]

Originally Posted by joelg236

I hope you don't ask them. haha

Oh true. Sorry, I misread the OP's question.

[Duncan Macdonald]

"How many wheels are on your robot?"
"7"

Shooter wheels are wheels too

[mrnoble]

Originally Posted by Duncan Macdonald

"How many wheels are on your robot?"
"7"

Shooter wheels are wheels too

Then, 14?

[mrnoble]

"What's the most points your robot can possibly score?"

I've always loved to see how my students answer that one.

[Sparky3D]

Originally Posted by mrnoble

"What's the most points your robot can possibly score?"

I've always loved to see how my students answer that one.

I got asked that one on Thursday during our regional (week 1). We hadn't even had our first practice match yet. I told them 1200 . They looked confused and walked away. Honestly, how are you supposed to answer a question like, especially when matches haven't even started ? Which reminds me, I should really look over our pit scouting sheet and make sure we don't have anything like that on there.

[atucker4072]

We've gotten asked every year how many wheels are on your drive train. They are also looking right at it when they ask this. I can't wait to see the questions we get asked this year due to the game.

If you are looking for serious ones definitely the robots speed(s) is a good one to ask. You can ask the consistency of the shots they make but most everyone will say something higher because yeah they think they are that good. It could help if you asked how many events the drive team has been in and it could give you an idea of their drive team could possibly do.

[Keegbot]

"On a scale from 1 to 10, how much aloha does your team show?"

[GBK]

Before bag day we were at a local practice field playing catch with another teams robot. We tossed the ball back and forth across the truss, catching it. and throwing it back. With our permission the team used one of these volleys in their revile video. This weekend at a competition one of their students doing pit scouting asked us several questions. His last question was: If we threw a ball over the truss do you think your robot could catch it. I just smiled and asked him if he had seen their revile video.

[Christopher149]

How many motors are on your robot?

Same with the wheels, I think the intent was in the drivetrain. I think it was for last year, so ... 10?

What type of drivetrain do you have?
-mecanum
How many wheels do you have?
-um, four??

Well, unless you have some other multiple of 4, I guess.

How fast does your robot go?

Now, this is a serious question, but it goes anywhere from "I don't know", "pretty fast", to making up a number since we haven't measured it.