Scouting Questions

[evanperryg]

Originally Posted by Citrus Dad

We have two types of pit scouting, and we don't leave these to random members of our team:

1) Pictures of the robots to use for ID purposes in our scouting. This done before competition starts by a trained team member. Smile!
2) Evaluation of specific metrics, including bring measuring devices and other equipment. This is done by senior team members (often subteam leads) and mentors. This is usually done during the competition on a subset of teams.

Very similar to what we do. Always check TBA first to see if there's a picture of the robot we can easily get without having to get pictures at the event. This season, we're cutting back pit scouting a lot to only contain the basic metrics we need for filtering of teams. Once we know if there's any specific questions we want to ask certain teams, that happens late friday or early saturday. When doing this, I usually wear a black sweatshirt over my team shirt to keep answers unbiased and to make sure I don't cause any false pretenses.

[logank013]

The biggest reason for pit scouting is for early qualification matches and pictures. The bigger "powerhouse" teams probably use it for cheese caking. We like to strategize with teams before qualification matches but I'm not sure if we really ever used the pit scouting data for that. Since we are in such a small district, It is only truly helpful the first two events. Then we usually can figure out what teams can do later in the day and the pit scouting data isn't very important. Pictures are just about the only good thing for pit scouting. I remember referring to robots by descriptions like "the purple robot" and pictures would have been really helpful.

[RoboChair]

Originally Posted by IndySam

How fast are you? my answer is always ludicrous speed

In 2014 I would always reply 2% the speed of sound, which was legitimately our top speed. When they didn't believe me I would tell them 10 m/s and they bought that value....