FAHA: Deserving your role?

[Ken Leung]

Ever have a member on your team who is really good at what they do, but not exactly a team player? How do you choose between someone who can work well with the team and someone who can drive the robot really well and carry the team into finals? Its not always easy to decide, is it? Let's take a look at this fellow FIRST-a-holic's situation and help him/her decide what the best course of action is!

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Alright, lemme give you some background. All year there has been one kid on my team who nobody really liked for his attitude. He did a lot of work but always complained about it and would then continue to complain about others not doing as much work as him. Anyways when tryouts came around he ended up winning the position of operator he wanted to and did perfectly fine at regionals enough for the team to seed in the top 8 anyways and with nothing major going wrong on his aprt. However, now at the last team meeting there was talk of replacing him with the runner-up from tryouts for nationals because they say the runner-up would do a better job at it even though nothing really went wrong. However there are doubts whether the people wanting this change really want it for the team's best thoughts or if it is for some personal grudge or resentment towards the student over his actions during build season (most of the kids pushing for it were personally pointed out by him during build). Do you think it is even conceivable to mess up the drive team right before Nationals having the current driveteam done so fine over regionals and gotten their pattern of communication and actions down?