Does Your Drive Team Have Any Pre-Match Rituals?

[Zebra_Fact_Man]

Originally Posted by JABot67

Looks like quite the short pre-match checklist. So you don't put the cart out of harm's way? Line up the robot for auton? Select the auton mode decided upon during alliance strategy?

Cart - nope. That's what field reset is for <joke>
Line up robot - that's the robot's job
select auton - my robot has one autonomous; (Pokemon) GO.

[TheBoulderite]

We used to have a driver that would buy boxes and boxes of Milk Duds before regionals and eat them in between matches for energy.

[Jonny_Jee]

In 2014 My co driver and I used to do a Shake 'n Bake fist bump before the after placing the robot on the field.

[dmelcer9]

Originally Posted by JABot67

- troll CD

I see what you did there

[ctt956]

A rule of thumb is to not pick your driver the night before load-in at the first event.

[hectorcastillo]

Originally Posted by ctt956

A rule of thumb is to not pick your driver the night before load-in at the first event.

Or after Friday night at your first event.

[frcguy]

Originally Posted by hectorcastillo

Or after Friday night at your first event.

Or pick a drive coach 15 minutes before your first practice match...

May or may not have first hand experience with this...

[ASD20]

Originally Posted by hectorcastillo

Or after Friday night at your first event.

Wait...you're supposed to have a driver? I guess I should have read past the Autonomous section in the manual

[frcguy]

Originally Posted by ASD20

Wait...you're supposed to have a driver? I guess I should have read past the Autonomous section in the manual

Silly programmers...

[snekiam]

If the match is delayed significantly (I.E. more than a minute or two), we go lay on the field in front of our robot.

[Nightwing430]

Last year my team didn't really do anything for a drive team ritual but this year me and the other driver on our team made a handshake during build season so we started doing the handshake before the matches started. This helped me calm down before the match started and helped me stay focused. If we messed up the handshake we would have to do it again, its like our good luck charm. I also make sure all of my team is behind the line by watching their shoes to see how close they are to the line.

[Briansmithtown]

Originally Posted by dmelcer9

Anyways, our drive team does a chest bump when the announcer says our team number.

Was that new this year? In 2014, when they announced our name, we would just bang on the plexiglass.

[Cory]

Nothing weird. Our coach just has to wear a jacket tied around his waist, or else we lose (scientifically proven since 2011).

[smitikshah]

Originally Posted by snekiam

If the match is delayed significantly (I.E. more than a minute or two), we go lay on the field in front of our robot.

That's something I've done but in retrospect it seems kinda gross.

[dmelcer9]

Originally Posted by Briansmithtown

Was that new this year? In 2014, when they announced our name, we would just bang on the plexiglass.

Pretty sure what happened is that once of the regionals banned banging on the glass so the drive team substituted.