Drive Team Configuration

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by JVN

i'll be the brutally honest one who says:

1. I hope we never get "randomly" assigned as your alliance partner.
2. We probably would never pick you as a partner in the eliminations.

Every match your partners are relying on you to do your very best, doing anything less is a disservice to them. Keeping a consistent driver is absolutely essential to good performance -- each match that goes by the driver will improve exponentially.

I love how if someone talks about intentionally "throwing a match" by not doing their best, the entire community flips out... but if someone talks about changing out their drivers...

-John

As a team going to both of our regionals with 589, I'm a bit worried.

David, you may want to make a fully autonomous robot, but to attempt to do so and field a noncompetitive robot is disrespectful to every other team there.

My team (and your team) pays a lot of money to compete, in a competition, and we plan to win. To field anything but the most competitive robot is inappropriate.

They say it's not about the robot, and that the lessons, etc. that result are what are important; well, if you don't put the most you can in the most competitive robot you can, you won't get the lessons out of this program you should.

In engineering, it's important to use the appropriate tools and not more resources than are required. Building a completely autonomous robot for a teleoperated competition may be cool, but it's bad engineering. A robot with many automated and autonomous portions to make it easier on the drivers (while maintaining driver control), is good engineering.

I could keep going, but you're unlikely to consider these words anyway.