[Suike]

My team, Heatwave, used to have like 75 people on it. We had a lot of people that never showed up to work on the bot or knew how the game worked or anything and were just there to have fun and provide "spirit." This year we knocked the team down to 50 and you had to work to earn your spot on the team. Only about a core group of about 8 people are actually bot builders (Pit Crew) and this includes the drivers, then we have 2 main engineers and one mentor also in the Pit Crew working on the bot. Then about 10 people are really into the strategy part. We have one main person who works with one of the engineers and stays in the pits and goes around to all the teams and works out strategies. Then there are about 7 captains (me being one of them ) which control teams of 4 which do "strategy sheets" or scouting during the specific matches. The rest of the team is basically spirit. I liked having a smaller team this year as compared to the much larger amounts of the previous years. Really only need about 40 people per team.