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Re: Pressure on Drive Team

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Originally Posted by ali_rockon22
Our Drive Team is not just team members that just drive the robot. The Drive Team are made up of the hardest working people on the team. I mean the ones working on the robot.
We work in a similar way. Driving is seen as a "senior privelege" on our team. The people who have been around the longest and been the most dedicated get rewarded by being able to, as you said, "play" with the robot.

I agree with Ken, this has nothing to do with your driving abilities, BUT...

We have a very small school (about 250 students) and consequently a very small team. By the time we get down to "crunch time" a week before ship day, there are about 10 people in the basement doing work. I dunno, maybe that's a lot, but that's really our core team. Everyone else either only comes every once in awhile or works on the Photoshop or Animation teams. A lot of people see driving as the "fun" part, the part where you get to see all your efforts come together.

So we reserve the right for the seniors on the build team. It's maybe not the best solution, but as I said, we have a pretty small number of people to work with. And we feel it's fair that those who worked the hardest get to make it all work.

We're pretty supportive of our drive team and we don't really take matches too seriously. I mean, we want to win, but I think we're one of the more laid-back teams. If we win we're completely ecstatic, but if we lose we don't worry about it too much.

In the last of our matches at SBPLI our driver and operator made a really...I'll say "silly" mistake that pretty much cost us the match. We were all good-natured about it, and afterwards I greeted them with "what was THAT about?!" in a joking way. But once we saw that they were really upset about it, we stopped joking and made our (albeit feeble) attempts to cheer them up. And if we had a match after that, we would have given them some chocolate and sent them back out on the field with encouraging words. We wouldn't "kick them off" the drive team for one mistake, or even multiple mistakes.

It's definitely not the best way to run things, but that's our philosophy and we're sticking to it! =)
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