[FTC]: Teams with >10 members

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Such a large team sounds interesting and challenging. I wonder if FRC might be a better fit for that many kids on one team. Have you considered a varsity team with a few junior varsity team feeding into the varsity team?

I have noticed that it seems to be getting harder for smaller teams to advance to the upper ranks. There are many advantages to having a team of only 5 or 6 kids as it forces them to develop skills across all the areas just to survive which I think will serve them well in their future careers. But the amount of effort a small team must expend to come close to the bigger teams on things like outreach and scouting is huge. It can be done but I wonder if a recommended size along with an upper limit on size would help keep FTC teams on a more level playing field an be more in the keeping of the FTC spirit.

[safiq10]

Being on a team of 3 people. I have to say I very much enjoyed the experience. Having 3 people on the team made the process of building the robot very easy and also everyone had to learn to do everything. Making us much more diverse and able to adapt very quickly to sticky situations.

Being from a small team it did become very difficult to scout at competition but we quickly solved this by crowd scouting.

I say it is very possible to be a small team and advance very well in your respected region. We advanced to the South Texas Super Regional and we did all our building after FRC practice.