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Originally Posted by Ken Leung
Ever have a member on your team who is really good at what they do, but not exactly a team player? How do you choose between someone who can work well with the team and someone who can drive the robot really well and carry the team into finals? Its not always easy to decide, is it? Let's take a look at this fellow FIRST-a-holic's situation and help him/her decide what the best course of action is!
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Alright, lemme give you some background. All year there has been one kid on my team who nobody really liked for his attitude. He did a lot of work but always complained about it and would then continue to complain about others not doing as much work as him. Anyways when tryouts came around he ended up winning the position of operator he wanted to and did perfectly fine at regionals enough for the team to seed in the top 8 anyways and with nothing major going wrong on his aprt. However, now at the last team meeting there was talk of replacing him with the runner-up from tryouts for nationals because they say the runner-up would do a better job at it even though nothing really went wrong. However there are doubts whether the people wanting this change really want it for the team's best thoughts or if it is for some personal grudge or resentment towards the student over his actions during build season (most of the kids pushing for it were personally pointed out by him during build). Do you think it is even conceivable to mess up the drive team right before Nationals having the current driveteam done so fine over regionals and gotten their pattern of communication and actions down?
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You know I think this is an advisors call on this...Our team is highly democratic but the advisor for the team does step in and make a call on this one. If it were me, if you have two drivers that are trained and good...go with the one that put in the most time..chances are he will be able to fix the robot best in the case it breaks on the field (elim. rounds.). The reason i say this is because i think driver is an earned spot. Its not a position for someone whos put in 20 hours of work should have. Its a position for someone who devotes lots of time into. They would care what happens on the field (stemming from the actually having their blood on it deal) more than the person who hasn't.
Thats just my personal feeling
-Pat