Trust in an alliance

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Posted by Gerrome Tan, Student on team #188, Woburn Robotics, from Woburn Collegiate Institue and various sponsors.

Posted on 2/25/99 9:11 PM MST



Just wondering about how teams view the partnership in an alliance. If the decided strategy involved one team being totally devoted to possessing the puck while the other scores, would your team totally trust the other team to do all the scoring? How about setting some protocols for conveying ideas during the few minutes alliances have before each match? This will allow each team a fair chance to input into each match they participate in. Suggestions?

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Posted by ComBBAT Veteran, Engineer on team #21, ComBBAT, from Astronaut High School/Titusville High School and Boeing, NASA.

Posted on 2/25/99 9:50 PM MST


In Reply to: Trust in an alliance posted by Gerrome Tan on 2/25/99 9:11 PM MST:



We are working on strategies (as I'm sure most of you are) that involve our robot doing all the scoring or little of the scoring (in case we're broke down). One concern I have is how well teams can communicate in 90 seconds what they want the other team to do. Will we all be using different terminology? Who will do the talking? Will everyone be upfront on what they can and cannot do realistically? I read in this forum where teams with well communicating drivers out perform better robots. I think the same will be true of alliances that communicate with each other well.

Scott

: Just wondering about how teams view the partnership in an alliance. If the decided strategy involved one team being totally devoted to possessing the puck while the other scores, would your team totally trust the other team to do all the scoring? How about setting some protocols for conveying ideas during the few minutes alliances have before each match? This will allow each team a fair chance to input into each match they participate in. Suggestions?