Re: The Defense Coordinator's Lament (or: have your crap together for queueing!)
 

Billfred, thanks for exhibiting GP while being the GP (in the second case it stands for Guinea Pig). I have been working to get our whole team knowing the proper defense names (OBTW to all, Cheval de Frise is pronounced Shevel duh Freeze, not Shovel duh Fries) with a bit of success, and I've even tried to adjust our mentee teams, probably with less success. We've also made it a bit of a point as to which defenses are the same category, even if we've been a bit slack on what the category letters are. By the time we get to Bayou, our drive team should be fully ready to specify appropriate defenses on the first try.

Edit, and not necessarily just for Billfred: OBTW, what's the current story with the Cheval de Frise (CDF)? Is this expected to be fully available in coming weeks? I watched a number of Friday matches and saw the status that the CDF had been benched, but have not had time to watch many Saturday matches, though I have heard that the CDF re-appeared on Saturday.

Re: The Defense Coordinator's Lament (or: have your crap together for queueing!)
 

One more thing I'll add: On practice matches, you CAN select from the same category (but not more than one of any defense). This is intentional, so that your alliance can practice on any defenses you deem necessary. Use that to your advantage if you want, but don't get used to that.

Re: The Defense Coordinator's Lament (or: have your crap together for queueing!)
 

I prefer to call it the "Free Chevy". But, out of respect for Billfred, hence forth, I will try to use it's proper name, Cheval de Frise.

Re: The Defense Coordinator's Lament (or: have your crap together for queueing!)
 

Upon seeing this thread, I thought that my team may be amongst those that are perhaps "defense challenged", so I made a quick doc for them. Each row of the doc is a group, obviously, and they go in order - though I probably should have labeled them.

Anyone should feel free to use it.

Re: The Defense Coordinator's Lament (or: have your crap together for queueing!)
 

It will always and forever be the shovel the fries to me.

Re: The Defense Coordinator's Lament (or: have your crap together for queueing!)
 

I refuse to call them anything but flip flops.

Re: The Defense Coordinator's Lament (or: have your crap together for queueing!)
 

People might get confused and think you're talking about politicians, especially in an election year. I'm sure many will be guest speakers at various events, so the DC's may think we need to put PEOPLE on the field in a slot if you call them that :D

(OK, bad joke)

Re: The Defense Coordinator's Lament (or: have your crap together for queueing!)
 

How is the audience selection communicated with teams in the pits? Does Pit Admin announce the results?

Re: The Defense Coordinator's Lament (or: have your crap together for queueing!)
 

We call them "French Ramps" but will probably have to tell our drive team to use a more conventional term :)

Re: The Defense Coordinator's Lament (or: have your crap together for queueing!)
 

As far as I know, there is no communication back to the pits. However, the audience selection category is printed explicitly on the match schedule so you'll have that known. Usually, you can look on the field and tell unless you're one of the first three matches after an audience selection. Even then, most of the time the DC will have been by the field for it anyway and have heard. At the absolute worst, you'll find out which one it is at the same time as the other three defenses you weren't going to know about anyway.