A Coach for the Alliance - The Supercoach

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Originally Posted by inkling16

It will be interesting to see if any teams use their secondary driver as a "temporary human player". Many robot designs will probably allow for single-driver control when not dealing with the ball. This will leave some secondary drivers inactive for long periods of time. If an alliance really wanted both a "supercoach" and a human player in each of the far zones, it would not be unrealistic for them to use a driver who is not doing anything at the moment to inbound the ball. This would free up the human player in the alliance station to be the supercoach for the whole match.

EDIT: After re-reading the relevant sections of the manual, I think that the "driver becomes temporary human player" is probably just a loophole. Then again, maybe not since G34 addresses only coaches and not drivers. In any case, I am going to make sure that my team's secondary driver has at least a little experience passing the ball to our robot.

I have not scoured the rules other than i remember them disallowing the couch from touching the ball, but each team member has a button he wears saying his role. they usually keep them very specialized. The coach is usually the only team member that is allowed to not be a student, which is probably why he/she can not touch the ball.