[Gary Dillard]

Originally Posted by BGiraud

Couldn't the legal mentor/coach step back and let his teams analyst step forward and effectively coach the drive team allowing the mentor/coach to move between teams in the drive team area to effectively act as the analyst?

COACH – a student or adult mentor identified as the person wearing the designated "COACH" pin or button during a MATCH. There is one COACH per TEAM.

ANALYST – a HUMAN PLAYER that assists the COACHES with strategy. There is one ANALYST per ALLIANCE.

There is nothing that limits what a coach or analyst can do on any team or alliance (except that a coach can't touch the controls). During the match there's quite a bit of overlap between coaching and analyzing. There's nothing that precludes one team's coach from coaching / giving strategy to another team on their alliance (nothing new this year - it's always been that way). Basically you now have 4 student/mentor coaches/strategizers per alliance, of which at least one must be a student.