Choosing Drivers

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Originally Posted by NorviewsVeteran

Such as the other driver/coach leaving out words and you know exactly what they mean. That is built over time.

Exactly.

At your first regional communication is key because the drivers and coach really haven't been working together very long and haven't gained that experience. But once you're at your second or third competition drivers are able to know what each other is going to do and the communication is more for double checking.

That is why i dont really understand/agree with the use of two drive teams. Basicially you are cutting that experience in half.

IMO having driver tryouts on thursday of competition is not good. I mean unless you had zero time to practice before ship I would want my drive team to get as much time as possible behind the controls. When I was a driver I would use thursdays to 1) get used to how the robot handles, 2) figure timing on tasks such as crossing the field or going between scoring positions, and most importantly 3) trying things that would be risky to do on Friday/Saturday for instance 2006 when on top of the platform i tried moving on the slick surface and found that it was really easy to slide off the ramp, so I knew not to do that during competition.