Driver's Test

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by Ethulin

Hey Rick.

To pick our drivers our executives (6 of them) voted in the drive team. Personally the issue I have with this is I could care less if my drivers knew a lot of the rules, that is what I as a coach need to know. Our drivers drive, thats it. They are supposed to think as little as possible "big picture" and only think about following strategy. It DOES sound like a good test for Coach, atleast the rules question.

I'm not so sure.

Take last year's game for example. If you gave a robot a love tap while they were in the loading zone, you could pretty much pack it up for the match. So what did I do when I coached? I made absolutely sure that my drivers knew to stay clear of robots in the loading zone.

Same thing goes for Human Player, which each year has some subtleties. Last year, since the task didn't require much in the way of tremendous aim (well, unless you consider sticking a tetra on the end of a pole tremendous aim), so we had about fifteen different human players. And before each match, I'd go over their job--robot in the loading zone, keep a tetra in your hand after autonomous, don't get whacked by other robots, both feet in the box, don't touch the robot.

Drivers should listen to the coach, but sometimes even the coach might botch a call. Having the drivers know enough to survive does wonders for this.