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Originally Posted by JaneYoung
So here's a naive question or two:
If your team fields more than 1 robot, then your team has more than 1 chance of winning, right?
Say teams bring a bunch of robots and start fielding more teams - can't they basically dominate the event?
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I'll use the california events (Calgames and Madtown Throwdown) as an example. At both events, there were twin robots, more so at Madtown, but Calgames had a 254 and a 252 (254 twin). Madtown had several 973s, 2 971s, 2 254s and maybe 2 1323s. There may be more, but I dont remember exactly and dont want to get the info wrong.
Anyways, at these events, it was pretty clear, for example, which 971 was the "real" 971 and which one was the practice robot. It may seem like it would be strategic to pick yourself from 1st seed, but as we saw at madtown, 973 picked 254 instead. Similarly a 254, 971 alliance won the Calgames iirc. Most times, the practice robots are made for practice and aren't as well tuned as the competition bots. They do what they are designed to do at the competitions and provide "practice" for new drivers.
At times, it felt like some teams were always playing because they had multiple robots entered. In some respects though, I felt like I could easily differentiate the robots even though they were twins. As many people have mentioned, there are basically 2 subteams that drive each one of the robots. I would think it was unfair if a team submits 2 robots, then uses the same drivers for both driveteams... that would be "having one more chance of winning." As long as these teams dont do that (and they don't), I would encourage multiple robots from teams.
Something else to consider is that there are schools that have multiple teams from the same school during the FRC season and are allowed to compete
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And how does the coaching work?
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Once again, someone from a team who has done this can chime in, but what I recall seeing at Calgames last year was 254's coaches split between the two driveteams. I think EJ was on one side and Travis was on the other. The team in the stands was cheering for both sides and was really supportive of both driveteams. This is a fun picture from the finals
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...type=3&theater