Pit Scouting

[Dancin103]

Originally Posted by AlexD744

For pit scouting, I've personally found that it is often better to ask questions about what a team can do, not how well they can do it. For example, last year, "Can you go over a bump or under the tunnel?" and "Do you have a possession mechanism?" Typically a team won't lie about what they can do. Although most will exaggerate about how well they can do it. This helps your team a lot more because if I team said no to both of the aforementioned questions, I probably would take them off a pick list, unless there was a strong reason why I should keep them.

Again, this is not the most important scouting, but it can make your life easier during a scouting meeting if you can just automatically take off 25% teams from your list because they can not complete the game functions that you require on an alliance.

I definitely agree with this. Pit scouting, in my opinion, is not the most helpful. I have always found that watching matches and analyzing those makes the most sense. But as previously stated, asking questions in the pit about what was observed on the field is helpful.

Just my two cents.