Help Choosing a Travel Team

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Hey everyone! So our team has just recently managed to raise the funds to go out of state and compete in a second regional. Normally we can bring a large majority of our team to the regional as it is only 1 hour away. This is not the case for this regional as the drive will take at least 8 hours. The problem here is we have a large group of skilled juniors and seniors we'd like to take, however a fair number of freshmen and sophomores have also worked really hard in order to go. Is there any particular way we could pick the people who go? We want to take our skilled older members, but also want our underclassmen to feel included and want to come back in the years ahead. There's obviously the idea of a lottery, but we'd like something a little more merit based. Thanks!