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Official Q&A: VEX IQ Robotics Competition 2024-2025: Rapid Relay
2417: Driver skills - Student stops driving to load during their drive time
Once the controller hand off is complete, can the second driver set the controller down and be a loader?
The note under RSC4 says: Note: In both Driving Skills Matches and Autonomous Coding Skills Matches, any Driver who is not currently operating the Robot may also serve as a Loader (i.e., a Team may have two Loaders at any given time).
In other words, in driving skills, if the person who can drive the bot has set the controller down, can they serve as a loader?
As described in the third paragraph of our answer to Q&A 2359, "If a Team wishes the Robot to operate autonomously for the 2nd half of the Match, a 2nd Drive Team Member from that Team must be present in the Driver Station and take part in the Driver switch as described in rule <G11>." The current Driver cannot serve as a Loader simultaneously.