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Originally posted by Andy Baker
Your alliance drives your robot and you drive theirs.
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Looking at that overall, as a driver, it wouldn't bother me. Yes, it would be interesting remembering the layout of other teams controls, but it shouldn't be too hard. The first robot I drove is nothing like the second robot I drove, and I had to switch over without any practice at all, and I seemed to manage OK. However, with our drive team, we would run into the problem where the base driver and the operator would be on different sides of the control board than the way we set it up. This would cause a big headache, between myself and the other driver, because neither of us would be able to hear each other, due to hearing impairments on opposite sides.
The game with cubes could be interesting. I wouldn't like footballs though... they would be weird to pick up.
Having a permanent partner could be done. They would have to do it by events though, not for the entire season. You also have to remember that you are supposed to be able to build the best robot possible, if you accomplish this, you should be able to play the game independently. There were many (close to ten) times where we ran without a partner in the 2002 game.