[Hallry]

Tryouts. Whoever's the best of whoever wants it. Doesn't matter if they're a senior, freshman, guy, or girl. If they're better than everyone else, they're it. We normally have the candidates do a different number of procedures with a previous year's robot while being silently judged by team leaders, as well as playing against a drive team alumnus with another robot if possible.

And, knowing how to quickly fix the robot in tight situations always helps, too.

EDIT: Justin Montois makes an excellent point in a few posts down. The drive team must be able to work together well and understand each other. Starting in 2010, we had two juniors who were twins as driver and operator. I still swear that they had twin-telepathy, because all four regionals they played in during 2010 and 2011 they won, including being #1 seed in two and in one going completely undefeated; they were also rank #4 and finalists on Curie in 2010. Starting in 2012, we had new juniors as driver, operator, and drive coach, who again could almost finish each other's sentences, and went on two win two districts (and one finalist) and compete in IRI in 2012 and 2013.