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also, one thing that you probably shouldn't do is have a current driver be a mentor (if your team has more than one driver). they might be a little too inclined to grab the controls to make the robot do something, and as we all know, that's a bad thing. in fact, any mentor should be told before each match, make even one move for the controls, and we'll toss you, cause no one wants to be DQ'ed for a stupid thing like that.
i think one match, we got very lucky (when taking all things into account). we were up against RAGE (great team, btw), and our chains just fell off on one side. so, we were effectivly dead, cause spinning around the field doesn't help much. so, i managed to get the robot back into the hoem zone (i was driver), and then i tried testing the individual sides, to see if i could pinpoint the problem. after i figure out the entire right side is dead, i turn and tell our mentor (i won't say any names), and tell him the robot is useless, and that someone did something to knock off the chains. now, i don't remember this exactly, but i'm 99.9% sure that he didn't believe me, and then reached out, and grabbed the right joystick, to 'make sure' i was right. now, up to this point, this was our worst match, but if our mentor did indeed touch the joystick, we got incredibly lucky, because we were not DQ'ed.
also, next year, the mentor badges should be much easier to spot. they should be a different color entirely, or just have a big 'MENTOR' printed on them, cause a little sticker, while it works, isn't the best solution. and, with the amount of pins FIRST gets, i doubt that adding another word to one, or printing it on different paper would cost that much more.
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