Do Drive Team Personalities Influence Success?

[JesseK]

From what I've seen in 2 years of coaching, personality influences the experience while maturity and desire influence success. 2 years ago our drivers and human player were very mature and we were fairly successful in every match.

This year's chassis driver was somewhat intraverted yet very focused and driven. The manipulator driver was very extraverted and knew the mechanical components of the bot better than he knew the back of his hand. We had much more success in interacting with many teams this year than we did last year, but last year we technically have a better win/loss ratio. This year's lack of field success was more due to technical difficulties than driving though. I guess it really depends on your view of "success". The first time we hurdled after a grueling season, I considered Atlanta to be a huge success.

This also reminds me that we have a "tribal dance" video recorded in Atlanta that needs to go up on youtube...