Robot Design: If there isn't a vote, who makes the decisions?

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Originally Posted by ksafin

It's basically like a government-esque decision making process for us. Each sub-team captain pays attention to what their team thinks, to what different factions prefer, and together the sub-team captains form some kind of "cabinet" of sorts where we make final executive decisions.

This is quite similar to the method 449 adopted last year, which worked reasonably well. We have a large group discussion in which everyone can speak their minds, and then a smaller discussion amongst team leadership where a consensus is reached.

In previous years (read: when I was a student), we had the whole team vote during downselect meetings. It was a nightmare. I hope to never do that again.