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Originally Posted by reymac
What is a good number of students to bring into the pits? We are wanting to cap it to 13.
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how many people can you fit
inside your 10x10 pit, with a robot, table, and tools, and still be able to work safely? The pit can get badly crowded, and I've never seen a team able to fit 13 people around 1 robot at the same time! If you have people who are sitting there doing nothing, send them into the stands. If you have so many people you're overflowing into the isle, send some into the stands.
Then again, if you have enough people to do all your scouting, compose the drive team, make repairs to the root and still have some left over... send them around to help out struggling teams! Have them go talk with the Rookies and see if they need help or fill them in on how the competition goes. Help those rookies with scouting so they know how to do it. Help them get to a point where they can pass inspection.
We have the drive team (4 people) whenever they aren't driving, and 3-4 others who are responsible for fixing anything that breaks and talking with judges. Add 1-2 mentors and we're under 10 people total... and the drive team doesn't actually spend much time inside our pit - they're off talking with their next alliance, or in the stands talking with our scouters.
There are special occasions when we bring more of the team down to the pit, though - being the only all girls teams at the regionals we attend leads to some face time with different VIP's, and when we know ahead of time they're coming over, we can bring down additional members for the experience.