[Michael Blake]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

But.. as Jess has stated early on in this discussion - this is not the problem that TRR has and it is also not the vision. She is quite serious when she says that TRR is setting itself up to be the next IRI. When you go to IRI, talk to the teams about how they manage their drive teams and what they do there. I'd have to go back through some older threads but I think there are teams that field new drive teams and they switch them out, sometimes, so that team members can have access to the experience. Teams can correct me with that but, again, that is an option available to your team at TRR.

Jane

I think it's FANTASTIC that Jess and Patrick want TRR to become another "IRI" and we'll FULLY support that how we can...

Its not my area of expertise as to how you achieve "IRI" legend-status as an off-season event, but, I do know that you can't refer to yourself as a "powerhouse" FRC team _unless_ a good amount of _others_ from the outside do it first... and I think the same rule may apply to TRR... SO, what do you do in the meantime? I think you conduct yourself to accommodate ALL the different _modes_ the teams (WHO WANT TO go to the trouble/expense of attending your event) want to use.

JUST my humble opinion... ;-)

ALSO, we don't have the option of rotating inexperienced students on our comp bot Drive Team... we're on a mission... we got a taste of CMP's elims and we "smelled" Einstein... ;-) HOPE I didn't just "jinx" ourselves... 8-i