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Originally Posted by thefro526
Also, your Driver/Drive Team is who people see on the field. They're attitudes and actions tend to represent the whole team in a lot of cases. So if they walk out to the field with a bad attitude looking as if they just woke up that may not make your team look well or another team may remember that during alliance selections.
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This is one of the more rather important factors when deciding who team drivers are going to be. I'm entering my forth year as the Devil Duckies Head Driver and the most important factor in deciding who will be on the stage is their dedication. The students who are willing to stay late nights building, talking and making key decisions about not only the design of the robot, but the rest of the team are those who should be considered "worthy" to represent the team.
Video games don't matter, if anything that's one of the most shallow ways of picking a driver, no offense to those who consider that method
. Finding a student who is loyal to the team, a great leader, motovating, intelligent, fun and has almsot no life or job
is what you should be looking for. The fact that they may be pretty good at staring at a tv screen should be a bonus. It's also almost a given that the student who spends the most time with the robot and helps design, build, and modify the darn thing is going to be the driver(they also need to dig the crazy hair
).
My info may be biased on account of myself being on a small team where a core group of students shares most of the responsibility, but oh well
. For the most part, the drivers, as well as the other leaders on the team, usually pick students and take them "under their wing" so that when they graduate, there's another to take on the responsibilities.