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Originally Posted by artdutra04
Relative to the drivers:
[ Northwest ] [ North ] [ Northeast ]
[ West ] [ Central ] [ East ]
[ Southwest ] [ South ] [ Southeast ]
No need to think about what "high triangle" means, when "northeast" is much more intuitive.
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By no means am I disagreeing with you, but I want you to consider the following scenario:
You are in a loud arena, there is music playing, and 10,000 screaming students. You are the Analyst tasked with helping coordinate the efforts of 3 teams. You are keeping track of every game piece played, and its location. You need to tell the coach of team 1234 that they need to retrieve a white circle from the human player. At this point the coach relays this information to the driver, who then sets their onboard lights to message the human player to pass the white circle through the feeder. At the same time, team 2345 is approaching the scoring area, and needs to be told to place the red triangle in the far right position of the left scoring grid. At the same time, team 3456 is scoring the blue square in the middle row of the right grid.
The analyst, in this scenario, has to do the following:
* anticipate what piece they will need the team to retrieve
* direct a team to the proper approach lane (while, hopefully, not causing a back up of two teams needing the same column)
* and identifying and recording what score just happened.
In some matches, this will be easy - but hopefully - (maybe on Einstein!) they will have to coordinate the accurate placement of 18 tubes in less than 1:45 minutes.
So, while I understand some ways will be less ambiguous than others, an easily learned, shorthand language, needs to be developed that becomes the standard across all teams - since I don't want to learn multiple languages!
"Blue on High A" to "Red to Low F" sounds ok to me too. It needs to be quickly understandable, unambiguous, and quick to say.
Assuming that 3 things are happening back to back, and 10 seconds later it starts all over again, what way do we communicate this info between Analysts, Coachs, Drivers and Human Players?
Steve