Volunteering at an event you have a team at?

[MrTechCenter]

I was a rookie robot inspector this year at one of the regionals my team went to. I was also the drive coach at that same regional. Since my team spent most of Thursday fixing up the robot with withholding allowance parts, I was free to do a ton of robot inspecting on Thursday. The couple of practice matches that my team DID get to on Thursday I just had somebody else fill in for me. Since inspections were 98% done by Friday morning, I spent all of Friday and Saturday coaching my team, except for a small portion of Saturday after my team's last match where I had to stand by the field exit and tell teams to go get weighed. Whenever I was in "inspector mode" I had my inspector hat on and I covered up my team shirt with a FIRST vest (except Thursday when I just wore a volunteer shirt). I took the hat and vest off whenever I was coaching.

If you want to still be able to do things with your team, volunteer for a role that has you able to work in shifts with other volunteers of the same role, that way you can still be with your team for portions of the competition.