Pit Politics

[Beth Sweet]

Originally Posted by T967

Entering into our third year I've noticed how the location of your pit can greatly affect the final picks. Alot of the teams that ally together are located in clost proximity to each other. This isn't bad I was just wondering if anyone else has noticed this?

I think that what you're saying is sort of correct. Teams are placed in the pits, near teams of similar number (aka, numerical order), and I think it would be a fair thing to say that most of the time, the teams doing the picking are going to go for the more experienced teams. The more experienced teams are going to be the ones with lower numbers and more years in the competition, and most of the time, more experience in engineering and overall knowledge, at least compared to the newer teams. A team with more experience in the engineering departments will most likely have a better robot, and, at least as I see it on my team, more experienced drivers, therefore producing a robot more appealing to the general picking public. Please note that I'm not trying to say that old teams rule and new teams stink, because that's really not my intention, just that teams with more experience have had more of an opportunity to perfect certain techniques that transfer through the years, and the older teams, due to numerical order placement, are typically together.

This is just my opinion and is more than likely wrong, and if you really want to make a note, I'm not even on engineering, so this may be 100% wrong, just my observations and opinions!