Too large of a team?

[unapiedra]

Wow!

I don't know how many of those are really advanced (robotics wise) but there are always college type robotics competitions or even professional competitions like the DARPA Grand Challenge (too late for this year but start building, this will take you a year).

I totally agree with Josh distribute your students to other teams... We sure would like it!

If you have the money (which you can make with that many students) you can build two robots. I am not exactly sure what the rules say for this, so you might not be able to switch those during the competition. I think about this like that: Have either two identical robots, that would enable you to make changes without risking anything (especially during competition) and even if one of them brakes -- you just take another robot...
The other version would be having two different robots. This means you could have two groups in your teams work on one each. If you would co-ordinate it right one robot could be more offense and the other more defense (or what ever you need in next year's competition), one strong, the other fast...

Well, you see where I am going, think about it!

Or add a European Support team ;-)