Sharing information - not a good idea?

[The other Gabe]

Originally Posted by Tom Line

We've found pre-scouting to be a waste of time, except for taking pictures. Often teams inflate their own abilities or give inaccurate statements. That's not a negative on teams: it's just that they see that they completed some task in practice and decide they can do it in a real match. Or sometimes they just have a overly optimistic view of how good their robot might be.

you just gotta have a good bullcrap detector ... when I did pit scouting, I usually scouted the newer teams, who have a tendency to do this (just from lack of experience, not putting them down in the slightest), because I was always interested in how well they were able to evaluate themselves. I'm not sure how well that factored into the scouting data, but I found it interesting :v

Originally Posted by Edxu

Last year, during the Recycle Rush Championships, I probably told 10-15 teams that we had matches with upfront that we were putting on a new mechanism, and we would either be crippled or of very little scoring use.

I remember you guys saying that to me, actually. it was nice to get an upfront, honest answer