Terminology of zones

[Mike Soukup]

For scouting purposes my team wants to capture the final zone position of a robot, but I don't have a good terminology for each zone. I don't want to use the absolute zone numbers given in the rule book because I'd never remember if zone 1 is on the red side or the blue side, and if I'm on the other side of the field zone 1 would be on my right, not left. That's too confusing for me I want the zones to be relative to the robot's starting position. Something like:
Start zone, ???, Neutral zone, ???, Endzone

So for a blue robot start zone would be zone 1, and for a red robot start zone would be zone 5.

What names has everyone given each zone so far? Hopefully we can all start using the same terminology to make scouting, strategies, and coaching in the box easier.

Mike

[kevinw]

One way is to always refer to the zones as relative, meaning if you are red, the zone closest to you is 1 and farthest is 5, and if you are blue, the zone closest to you is 1 and farthest is 5. This is not dissimilar from start ... neutral ... end.

The other is simply by scoring names, meaning:
AllyRobot,OppGoals,Neutral,AllyGoals,OppRobot. But this is too confusing and could be misheard with the noise at a competition.

[AdamT]

How about this.

Blue Ball Zone
Blue Goal Zone
Blue Home Zone

Red Ball Zone
Red Goal Zone
Red Home Zone

No *person's* land

[Jason Rudolph]

I would simplify it a bit more.

Red Home
Red Goal
Zero
Blue Goal
Blue Home

The red and blue simply refers to which side of the field, not the red or blue alliances actual scoring, if you wanted it like that, then it would be

Red Home
Blue Goal
Zero
Red Goal
Blue Home

which is a little confusing in my eyes.

[AdamT]

Yup, we definately need to decide on something....very confusing, vcery confusing.

[Mike Rush]

How about 'that end', 'over there', 'somewhere in the middle' (for all of you Sleepless in Seattle fans), 'over here', and 'this end'. THis should make things perfectly clear.

[AdamT]

Yes, over that way works well...but I think the real answer to the solution is for us all to have small white boards with tape on them to mark the boarders and then just do it visually. That's what we did in the tournament in nats.