Role of Team Captain

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by thefro526

Being a Driver and Scouting actually seem to go pretty well together. Having first hand knowledge (not filtered through a scouting system) of your allies and opponents can be the difference between winning and losing a match.

I always tell our Drive Team to watch as many matches as possible when we're at events with the hope that they'll gain some sort of insight into the competition.

For regular Regionals I can see this, but how did this work out for you at Championship last year?
With all the walking back and forth it's really hard to see more than a fraction of the other matches, and some teams you never get to see play.
Our driver team gives Scouting input like which teams are easy to work with, which are demanding, uncooperative, and difficult, who has the coolest phone apps...

I both like and dislike the idea of having a programmer on the driver team. In one way it's great for them to see and correct problems, in another it's hard for them to have time to enact actual changes while they aren't busy with drive team duties, or being on queue. My preference is for a drive team programmer to direct another programmer in making changes, so they can be ready to test when the drive team returns from a match.