[DougHogg]

Originally Posted by Mr. A

It seems to me that in order for team coaches to communicate with their drivers, and their two alliance coaches, there should be a consistant terminology for identifying goal positions. We discussed it and would suggest the following:

Left 3 . . . . . Center 3 . . . . . Right 3

Left 2 . . . . . Center 2 . . . . . Right 2

Left 1 . . . . . Center 1 . . . . . Right 1

Where one is the closest to the driver, and three is the farthest.

As long as people know their right from their left (with which I'll admit I still have some difficulty) this would make it easy to instruct a driver or suggest to an alliance member to go after a specific goal.

Whatever the terminology is it should be agreed on between teams prior to a match, but I think it would really make it easy if we have something universal that all teams already know.

What do you think out there, and how do we spread the word?

Our team wanted to standardize on the number pad format, but after seeing this thread, I think the above format is better in a pressure situation (which I don't think will be unusual in this year's game).

I would like to suggest a slight change to the above, namely saying the row before the column. That seems a little easier for me to spit out for some reason. So it would be "Row 1 left" and which would be abbreviated as follows:


3 left . . . . . 3 center . . . . . 3 right

2 left . . . . . 2 center . . . . . 2 right

1 left . . . . . 1 center . . . . . 1 right