[russell]

Its interesting. I was just thinking about this earlier today. First (I think in the game section) the manual says that a team is four people, but later (I think in the section about the events) it says that at least one person has to report in order for a team to get a score. I would go find those bits but I am almost over my bandwidth limit and I dont have the manual on this computer.

As for what I think your question actually was I would recomend that if you are a small team you should take everyone. Last year we had seven people and we all went. This year we have about six or seven members there every day of the week from two until six and ten til six on weekends and we will probably all go, then we have some sort of fringe elements who show up for the (free) food and to listen to our music and just generally hang out. They probably wont go, though I dont know for sure. You just dont want your pit area too crowded. Give extra people clipboards and have them take notes on and pictures of other teams bots. Our pictures from last year were great for ideas this year, and I wish we had taken notes.