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Originally Posted by Pavan
I have a question about veteran teams telling rookies what to do. If everybody says "stick with what works" than if the veteran team has experience, I believe they would be saying "what works" since most veterans have some sort of scouting system. Why would this not be a "stick with what works"? I understand if the tone of the speaker was a bit demanding or if they were rude, but why change the game plan and sabotage a good plan?
Pavan.
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I think that you are the only ones who know what your robot is capable of doing. For example, if you know that your ramp is broken, you're not going to volunteer to lift both robots during a match, no matter how consitent your robot has been in previous matches. I think that pre-match strategy discussions should not be dominated by one team, no matter how long that team has been around, or how much scouting they have done.
I remember once in 2005 (Think tetras) before one of the matches, one of the mentors from one of the teams on our alliance was pressuring us to agree to cap specific goals. The problem was, we were better at placing the tetras underneath the goals (a strategy that had made us a finalist and a regional winner). Though our robot may have been able to complete that task, we had only capped the goals a couple times and were not confident that we could do what they wanted us to. If they were the only team with input into the strategy of that match and if we didn't speak up, we probably would have wasted a lot of the time in that match. I'm all for asking "what do you want to do in this match" rather than telling "this is the best way for us to do things".
For this situation? I think that a good coach is the key. You can choose a strategy where you try to score for the first X amount of seconds, and revert back to defense if certain things happen. If you can't score within X seconds, you'll go back to defense. If an opposing team is scoring ringers left and right, then go back on defense. If you spend the whole two minutes trying to score one ringer, while the other alliance has just scored 256 points, there is a problem. As long as the coach is keeping a good eye on the clock, and a good eye on what's going on around on the field, and is communicating with the other teams on the alliance, the match should be successful.