Re: Strategy Badges
 

It's not a rule in the way you're trying to ask, and for good reason: the media pass itself is not allocated within the Game or Admin Manual. The only badges that are are Drive Team and Safety Captain. The other decisions, as I understand it, are at the discretion of the event. Which makes sense, because as Koko Ed mentioned, many arenas (to include queuing) are just too crowded.

Personally, I've always considered the logistical difficulty of handling strategy at a competitions to be part of the tournament. If The Powers That Be disagree, I'd be happy to use the access in venues where there's room.

Re: Strategy Badges
 

This sounds like a position your coach should be filling while in or out of queue. Have someone else communicate relevant match data to the coach between matches. Last year as drive coach the head scout and I would meet or he would otherwise communicate information to me, and this year I text the drive coach often. I remember 118 had their scouts deliver the packets of data they had on the other 5 robots for the match to the coach at Alamo last year.

Coaches should be able to run strategy with the other coaches, provided they get digestible data to use. I've never coached at a district or a similarly sized regional so maybe I just don't comprehend how you could be having this problem, though.

Re: Strategy Badges
 

I ran scouting for my old team as the head scout/strategist in 2014 and my job was to sit in the stands and watch the other teams play. Approximately 30 min before a match I would take all of our data down to the pit and then go over it with our driver coach. I gave him my best plan and left it up to him to work out the details with the other teams. This worked really well. And on the matches were we had a short turn around I briefed our coach in advance. He already had all the data on paper for the next match so when he went back into queing he already knew the plan.

Re: Strategy Badges
 

Have you ever tried to use a cell phone during an FRC event? It's almost too loud for texting.