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Re: [YMTC]: Robot Ability

As a mentor who was also the drive coach and one of the strategists, I believe that it is more beneficial for your team to do offense in a situation such as the OP's. It's more beneficial simply because it shows the fruits of the labor the mechanical/programming team put into a manipulator. It shows them what it actually took to get the durn thing working! Now maybe next time they can plan ahead & design/test instead one fire and then the next.

Strategically, it could help your alliance out as well. If you explain to them the other capabilities of your robot, and that you'll attempt to "score one on the way by" and then cap the back (effective defense b/c you get in the opposition's way too), you have an argument that is tough to fight. It was also my experience that scouts have your greatest strength figured out before your final match.

Typically the students on my drive team would do the scouting for our next alliance, simply so they could get the full experience of having to work with other engineering-minded people. The one thing to teach is that regardless of how great your mind is or how knowledgable you are, you still HAVE to be able to communicate well. I would simply step in and suggest ideas for strategies (like how to split the opposition's defense in our 256-scoring match in Atlanta), but for the most part we would all stay open to others' ideas. Hopefully others can learn to do the same since I don't see alliance-style matches going away any time soon.
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