[artdutra04]

We have one drive team for all the official FRC events each season. We hold driver tryouts, and the team coach (a mentor) makes the final decision on the drive team. Official FRC events are expensive, and we want to ensure that we have the best possible drivers to give the team the best chance at succeeding.

But for the post-season events, we let the students run the team and make 100% of all decisions, as these events are just for fun (and the cost of these events is practically nothing compared to the cost of a Regional). For these events, the students typically let whoever wants to drive the robot have their chance.

At least in the Northeast, because of the huge number of post-season events, most teams use these events to either let any student drive or to train new drivers, so it's not uncommon at these events for a team that was doing really well in the official events to struggle on the field.