[joelg236]

I have an interesting perspective here. Last year, we had 3 sister teams with virtually identical robots, 2 being a 3-person drive team, and 1 being a 2-person drive team.

We decided it based off of personality & skill - the drive team with 1 driver was like that because he had excellent coordination and only needs small input from the coach (who could spend time focusing on the other teams).

Overall, the 3-person drive teams did a bit better competition wise, probably because they had more heads to solve problems in a match, but certainly coordination wise it was a tie. There can be a great advantage to not having someone else to direct and communicate with.