There's a ton of in person work to be done. You could get it down to maybe 5 people/team in person and have the audience remote, but that's about it. 2 drivers/

There's a ton of in person work to be done. You could get it down to maybe 5 people/team in person and have the audience remote, but that's about it. 2 drivers/operators, 1 mech, 1 electrical, 1 programmer. With maybe some overlap with drivers, but that's often a separate skill ladder. Not only would you have issues with remotely controlling the robots, as most of the competition isn't autonomous, but things are constantly breaking and need physical intervention. These aren't NASA rovers.