[Lil' Lavery]

Our try-outs vary from year to year. This year the judges had made flash cards of field situations and evaluated your response time and what you told them you were going to do next. That was to test both your ability to think quickly and your strategic knowledge.
Each year, the biggest part of the try-outs is the strategic "testing". The try-out has been flash cards, running "mini-games", and sketching out your response to various situations the 3 years I have tried out.
The other major aspect of the try-outs is communication. During the year with the "mini-game", during a few of the rounds they ran they would have the driver controlling the "robot" and the prospective coach tell him what to do. They have also done role-playing of various other team's coaches and scouts for when your debating what strategy you will follow. One of the judges acted as if they were a particularly troublesome to communication with type of personality, and they observed how you reacted.