[FTC]: Teams with >10 members

[CENTURION]

Holy what?! 53?

Obviously I'm not a part of your team, and don't know with certainty what's best for you, but I'd consider splitting. You can still pool together for outreach and fundraising and the like, but there have got to be a lot of your students who are left out of the build process.

I've seen ten-person teams who have trouble with people not getting to work on the robot. 53 sounds like a nightmare to me.

Again, if it works for you, that's great, but it sounds insane to me.

[lylecheath]

People join the team knowing what they are getting into, some join some of the local (relatively) smaller teams as well. We started the year with 64, but by our first competition it was down to 53.

We have considered splitting, but part of it is a funding thing, that initial jump to another team costs plenty of money. Also most of the "valuable" members would want to stick together if we split, leaving an A team and B team, which is not something we want.

You are right though, not everyone gets robot time. This is something that we have accepted, but there are so many other things to do on the team that it isn't always a problem. There are so many side projects going on that keep us competitive year to year. One example is our autonomous, it was one of the most versatile at worlds and we are now remaking it from the ground up, but in a format that would be adaptable to future competitions.

On the management side we have been getting closer to perfecting the large team every year, and this year it was a powerhouse, we were competitive all the way up to Edison semi-finals where we lost because of a broken GB. (We now know the tricks behind not breaking the V2s)