[Zuelu562]

As a really small team (5-7 students, 4-5 technical mentors), our drive team is realistically whoever wants to. As the coach, I plan to have the veteran drive and give him his own practice time, but give the other members of the drive team practice time, to get used to the controls and because one of them will be operating our shooter.

Determining WHEN to choose your drive team is really down to how your own team operates; on my previous team, we chose drivers within the week or two before competition 3 out of the 4 years, but the team was always behind on robot construction and had at least 15 student members. With 3623, being a smaller team, it's a lot easier to "thin the herd" of potential driving staff, and we've only got to decide who's operating the shooter and who's going to be the human player.