[Mike Betts]

Originally Posted by wevets

At the Cascade Regional, I was told that at least one drive team, maybe two, had adult coaches/mentors on them in the analyst position. Is this legal?

You should have been able to look this up yourself... From Section 1, Page 9:

HUMAN PLAYER – a pre-college student team member that fills one of the ALLIANCE roles of FEEDER or ANALYST. There is one HUMAN PLAYER per TEAM.

So we see that the ANALYST must be a pre-college student. The other alliance, if they knew the rules should have pointed this out to the referees.

That is assuming, of course, that this was factual and not hearsay...

Originally Posted by wevets

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4. It just seems contrary to the FIRST principal that this is a competition of students, by students and for students.
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In my 17 years of doing FIRST, I have never seen this written down or stated by anyone with FIRST. Stating this as a FIRST principal would appear to be in error...

You may want to concentrate more on facts in the future...

JMHO,

Mike