What do your human players and mentors do?

[jonathan lall]

... In our case, once autonomous mode concludes, our mentor starts barking out instructions for the driver and operator. He is basically the on-site strategist.

I, being the human player, have the job of yelling times, calculating scores for either alliance, and communicating with the other team. I'm just wondering what other teams do, and if anyone has a better system.

[Ryan Albright]

well are human player is are strategist he has the job to watch the other bots and the score for are next move. The mentor is usually are lead mentor he is there in case something go's wrong with are bot or are alliance to help us thru it even if we are otu there he will talk us thru what we shoul ddo

[AJ Quick]

We would just yell at the driver what to do... I don't think he needed it though.

[Jeff_Rice]

Our HP mans the wings.
Or at least that is the plan, anyway. Don't know if she's practiced, but it doesn't take long to get familiar with them.
Our mentor yells at the drivers. She is a student, by the way.

[rbayer]

Originally posted by AJ Quick
We would just yell at the driver what to do... I don't think he needed it though.

Thanks for the vote of confidence... I think.

Anyways, our field team consisted of four students without any adults there. Basically, the three non-drivers helped monitor the rest of the field so I could concentrate on our actual 'bot and coaxing it into turning even though it never really wanted to. This included things like telling me how much time we had left, which stacks to go after, what the opponent was doing on our side of the field, when it was time to race for the top, etc.

No driver, no matter how good, can keep track of four robots, 45 tubs, and an entire 1000 ft2 (approx) arena. That's what the mentors, HPs, and other driver are for.