[ablatner]

We don't have any of that sort of organization. It's almost always just the safety captain and whoever needs to be there. If there's nothing to work on, only a couple of people are there. If there's more work to do, the people who know how to do the work are there. Precedence goes to whoever has work to do, and everyone else, minus programmers and the battery person, are sent to wander the pits or go to the stands. Usually though, the people who are working are the drive team (3 of them are leads), section leads, and others who can work well without instruction. We almost never have mentors actually in our pit. If they're there, then they're usually just standing outside the pit watching or chatting.

I find that there's so many unpredictable things that happen at competition that scheduling people ends up more inefficient than just the right people working when they need to.