[rich2202]

What is the mission of FIRST? It is to inspire, not to make it to the championship.

So, you seem to have the situation of a rookie team. So you do not win. So what? If kids are being inspired, and come back next year, hopefully they have learned how to better build a robot.

If you have ideas on how the team can progress faster, then privately talk to a mentor, or whoever seems to be leading. Maybe they are clueless and would appreciate your thoughts.

BTW: I think major decisions can be by concensus, but a lot of what happens in week 1 is prototyping. Small teams go build their mousetrap to see if it works, and is worthy of making the competition bot.