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Re: A Coach for the Alliance - The Supercoach

I first got to experience a little bit of this play style when we played with Jared of 341 at Chestnut Hill last year. We started employing more of it when we were lucky enough to be an alliance captain several times at different off-season events. Strategically, I think it really is the stronger way to go, as it kind of drives everyone to compete toward the same overall strategy and facilitates communication throughout the alliance. In this game, in the majority of cases, I would defer to whoever has the dominant robot to determine the overall strategy, regardless of whether or not they want to pass the "supercoach" role onto one of the other coaches.

In past games, if you want to execute this during qualification rounds, you really risk labeling yourself as a bossy team if the strategy goes sour or you don't give a team a chance to shine, and negative reputations are hard things to overcome in FIRST sometimes. With a game that requires so much interaction, though, it may be expected for strategies like this to be employed, making it less of a risk. We'll watch the week 1 and 2 events to see how everyone is playing this game and adjust accordingly.
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