[ZakuAce]

Last year, our rookie year, we had A LOT of people on the team, upwords of 30. We found that having lots of people working in the same area actually slowed us down. We ended up scrambling at the end because for 5 weeks too many people were doing...whatever...and it was hard to keep track of what was going on.
This year, we split into a girls and boys team. Guys is 2077 Girls is 1988. There are 14 on the guys team and 4 on the girls. And it seems to be working out really well. We got organized much faster and are running a lot smoother.
One of the advantages of having two teams is being able to build two different robots. We saw this work out extremely well for the Martians 70 and 494, who had great robots. However, if I remember correctly, they built two robots that were almost exactly the same. We plan to have our robots perform different functions. One will be small and fast, so as to run around and score points, and the other to work with the trackball. And it would be awesome for our teams to pick each other if we make a seed.
One more thing: Although we are two teams, we are all from the same school. Therefore, we will help each other out. If one team is having problems and needs help, they don't ahve to go very far to look for help. We're really one big happy family (maybe not always happy, since we are going to have sleep deprivation for the next several weeks, but we have to stay positive!)