"Best" Pit Scouting Questions

[nlj007]

"What is the gear ratio of your drivetrain?"
Our answer
"Umm something like a Million to One..."
*scouter writes down our answer*

[brandon.cottrell]

One of our scouts asked a team: "On a scale of 1-5 how is your driving capability?"

Their answer was 10.

Stay classy 987.

[Canon reeves]

Scout: is there anything else you would like to add?
Me: yes, they have an extremely attractive driver
Scout: surprised then laughs
Me: no seriously, write that down

[Mason987]

Originally Posted by Brandon1266

One of our scouts asked a team: "On a scale of 1-5 how is your driving capability?"

Their answer was 10.

Stay classy 987.

To be fair, your scouts asked the driver himself. I tried to inform them but I was too busy laughing at how natural the response was.

[rkbot]

Questions i have seen this year are
the classic "What team number are you?" fools look at the sign
This year "Can your robot pick up?" Nooo... That big box with the wheels on top is just there to look good you dummy, get you stuff right or just ask to look at the robot to make your own observations before asking stupid questions.
I get the what team number one atleasy twice every regional and i avoid answering questions because i am usually in the back of the pit working on the robot.

[Rynocorn]

I always try to make my teammates answer questions instead of me so if they ever ask me something that they don't know I just always say 7. Sometimes I pause and pretend to think or just instantly say it, but it's always 7. The best is when someone asks about the drive motors, dimensions, or height - it really throws them for a loop

[xXhunter47Xx]

Originally Posted by rkbot

Questions i have seen this year are
the classic "What team number are you?" fools look at the sign
This year "Can your robot pick up?" Nooo... That big box with the wheels on top is just there to look good you dummy, get you stuff right or just ask to look at the robot to make your own observations before asking stupid questions.
I get the what team number one atleasy twice every regional and i avoid answering questions because i am usually in the back of the pit working on the robot.

That doesn't sound very GP. there were many instances where I've told scouts about the intake and they still ask if we can load.
Sometimes they forget, or it's just a habit they got into. You'll have to deal with stupid questions in the "real" world as well, not just at FRC, so you might as well get used to being polite about it.
I remember the most ridiculous one was "how good looking was your robot?"
I wanted to reply "devilishly handsome like me" but the drivers were there and us being friends, I'd know they'd probably say "don't insult the robot like that, it's not that ugly".

[colin340]

what type of bear is best?

[kk052]

In a little more serous note, how do you answere how many moters your drivetrain has to someone who doesn't know what a swerve drive is? Because technically 8 but only 4 propel the robot.

[atucker4072]

Originally Posted by colin340

what type of bear is best?

Black Bear.

[neshera]

Originally Posted by colin340

what type of bear is best?

Guiness on tap.

Oh wait, bear....

[neshera]

Originally Posted by GBK

... "their revile video."

Thankfully, this is only rarely true

[SoftwareBug2.0]

Originally Posted by Whippet

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

I enjoy some of the "stupid" questions. For example, the only correct answer for that one is "11". Similarly, someone from a different team came and asked me how many seconds ago our drive team had left the pit. My answer was 347 and a half. He said ok, took about two steps and then stopped as he realized what had happened.

Similarly, I love the questions that you can answer factually but you know that when you do it's going to screw up their data processing. For example, there's lots of non-exhaustive multiple choice: "does your robot use traction wheels or mecanum?" For us the correct answer is "no". Similarly, I like questions where the answers might become skewed so much that the average won't mean anything. If you ask how far robots can shoot you'll get one robot like ours that will go like 100 feet, and if you average that with a bunch of other robots that shoot between 10 and 20 feet your average will end up being above the distance that all but one of the robots shoot.

[DampRobot]

Originally Posted by Whippet

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

The quality of a teams robot is often much more closely correlated to the quality of their bumpers than most people would guess. While asking a team this wouldn't do much good, this is actually not such a bad stat to have.

We often give our drivetrain speed in knots to pit scouts.

[cadandcookies]

Originally Posted by DampRobot

The quality of a teams robot is often much more closely correlated to the quality of their bumpers than most people would guess. While asking a team this wouldn't do much good, this is actually not such a bad stat to have.

We often give our drivetrain speed in knots to pit scouts.

Come by out pits and you'll get it in a variety of colorful units-- fractions of a space shuttle's top speed (1/2000), the speed that a stalk of bamboo grows by (329,184), or if we're feeling nice, miles per hour (~10mph).