Quote:
Originally posted by Mark_lyons
Interesting.. First of all, are your coaches adults or students? Does your coach have any specific responsibility during a match? If so, what are they?
|
Our coaches have been and always will be students. This year we have a guy devoted entirely to scouting and coaching - he spends all of Thursdays scouting other teams at practice and getting their strengths and weaknesses. Then he transfers his database on all the teams he's seen to someone else equally competent for modifications on Friday, while coaching off of his old database to me (the driver). After each match we play, he synchronizes his database with the person in the stands', and we start over.
Since our robot is simply designed, our secondary controller only has to work two buttons (one to turn off the compressor's automatic cycles and one for the goal grabber), and therefore the job can pass between team members. We have 3 or 4 good shooters, so they rotate as well. Thomas (our coach) and I usually visit our alliance partners' team normally 20 to 30 minutes in advance to coordinate what we're going to do, get the most up-to-date scouting we can about the people we're paired against, and talk strategy from the 15 minute mark down. Thomas then keeps track of the overall gameplan in his head, I keep track of what our robot has to do in my head, and we work together with the other team through the match.
We've never seen a need for adults to be our mentors in a match, and they've never seen the need either. They're content to be teachers and let us learn on our own sometimes.