Politics in Robotics, Need Help

[LondonBoy29]

In past years on our team, we have just had captains and everyone else. But this year, some of the more senior students on our team decided to create a "Jedi Knight Council" in order to talk about and make decisions about robotics. A lot of people on the team (including myself), some in the council and some not on the council, think that this is a bad idea. We think that this divides the team too much, and also people who want to have a say in what goes on in the robot (like myself) don't have as much say to what is going on. There is a meeting after practice tomorrow in order to talk about it. Does anyone have any advice on how to solve this problem? I don't want this to become a battle, just to be solved and then put to bed. Have other people had political problems at robotics? What were they and how were they solved?