A Captian and Driver Issue

[Bomberofdoom]

In the past two years, our team voted for the best driver, operator, captain and human player, after doing a driver's test on the last night before delivery (when the robot was finally complete and ready for testing). I was voted to be the driver for Rack n' Roll and Overdrive(2008 due to experience).

This year, I'm hoping (I'll probablly demand) to be the Captain, 'cause I believe I've got the idea of comping up with good strategies after having a driving experience for two years and getting the feel of the field pressure. Plus, I'd like one more year on the field, if possible, but driving 3 years in a row is a bit too much, so coaching is the best in my opinion (HP? I dunno...).

If I do get to be the captain, I'll probablly do an off-season driver application course, open for the whole team. Only pairs (driver and operator) can join and anyone can try, and I'm thinking of using one of the ideas mentioned in one of the topics about Driver Team pressure, which is to give them all sorts of tasks to do such as strategy quizes, handling controls on video games, stratgey on board games and other stuff, along with handeling the robots of 2007-2008.

What I'm hoping is by the end of December to get a final result which will decide who will be in what role in the driver's team.Then in the 6 weeks of build, the team will get guidance from strategy and work with them too, and whenever there will be a testing of the robot, they will drive it to get more feeling of the robot towards the last days of the build.

After all this, I hope (I might be day-dreaming about this) to have a drive team that will know all the best specific driving manuvers in the game, which they will decide which one to do and how to do it and handle doing it, while I tell them what their general direction of play has to be, give them the time, warning about obstacles, etc...

Again, I might be fantasizing about this idea.

I wouldn't mind if the drivers are Seniors or first years. If both are good, I'd probablly ask the first years to give a last shot for the Seniors, 'cause the first years will be in the team for atleast another year, if not two if the second one is volunteerly.


P.S
about an HP, robocoach or whatever, if it be like an HP that has to throw something to the field, I'd make sure he'd practice throwing untill his an ace in it.