I'm the human player on team 343, and I think that I'm valued as much as the driver and operator. I mostly find myself keeping score and repeating it to both our team and our alliance partner. At times I'll see a way to get around things or make the score better and I'll tell someone to do something, unfortunately there's a lot going through the drivers head and they don't always hear me, but hey...at least I try! Well I know that a human player can be very helpful most of the time. I know that at the Kennedy Space Center, the first regional that my team went to, during our first match we wouldn't have known if we won or not if I hadn't been keeping score (34, 36). The only bad thing is that it's hard to count balls if the bot dumps a bunch at the same time (any suggestions on a good way to keep up with this??). At the St. Louis regional that happened to me...during the final matches our alliance and the opposing alliance had ball bots and I couldn't count as fast as they were dumping, therefore nobody in the arena knew who won...lol...all but the driver of our alliance (team 16), he was jumping around yelling "I know we got it!!!!" but none of us were really sure about it, except Lance (team 16) we couldn't change his mind.

Well that's my view on it! I'll see ya'll at the nats!!

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Jessica L
Team 343 Metal in Motion (MiM)
metalinmotion.com
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