Team 449

One of the team's biggest successes at the D.C. Regional was the completion (from the perspective of everybody but the developer, who is still working) of a slick scouting system, which enables data to be rapidly collected and compiled. This data includes photographs, notes on the details of the robots, and qualitative ratings as well as records of past performance. Almost everybody not in pit crew was busy gathering data for the scouting network. Although the team did not win the award for the best scouting network, the network was quite effective. A bit less effective was the team's ability to advertise itself: hundreds of buttons were made, but nobody got around to handing them out.

The scouting network is being improved, and will probably be released sometime around Chesapeake for other teams to use. We have not yet determined whether the source code will be available for use by other teams by the beginning of the regional.

Because of the extensive scouting done at D.C. on many teams that will also attend Chesapeake, we expect to have a significant advantage over many other teams, which will not have had the opportunity to study their rivals first-hand.