To everyone who may feel in any way offended, I'm sorry in advance, but this is just my opinion. I hear a lot of people saying that the "more dedicated" student has priority before the "skilled" student. Well, what I don't understand is, If you have a dedicated student who works on the robot a lot through the season, and knows almost everything about the robot, and another student, who doesn't work as much on the robot, but has tons of practice driving and spends almost every meeting just driving the robot, then who should drive between the two of them? Now, some people will argue that the more dedicated student should drive, since he/she worked on the robot the most, but I think that the more skilled student should drive.

Why?

Because this student has more "dedication" to the position of driving the robot. The student who works on building the robot may know it like the back of their hand, but speaking from a driver's point of view, they know almost nothing when they get behind the controller.

It's like a game of football. As a coach, would you rather have the player who has been the quarterback before and is good at it be the quarterback, or the player who spent countless hours fixing footballs, washing the team's jerseys, and preparing the team for each match be the quarterback?

Personally, I'd choose the more skilled player.

We as FIRSTers work for 6 straight weeks to build an awesome robot. For the most part, everybody puts a lot of work into the robot, and most people want to drive. Sometimes you have 30 people on a team who want to drive. So, why only choose the most skilled?

I don't know about other teams, but this is a bit how my team works: Each and every person has a job. Each and every person should try their best at that job. We all have a common goal: For the team to win. (I know someone's going to respond and say that it's not about winning, but seriously, who doesn't try to win???) So, we all do our work in the best interest of the team. So when it comes to picking drivers, the most skilled drivers are going to win more than the unskilled drivers, so naturally it is in the team's best interest to choose the skilled drivers.

Again, I'm sorry if anybody disagrees, but this is just my opinion.