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Re: 3 Year FRC Cycle? - The CON's

Huge negative #1 - by year 2 and 3, every single robot will look largely the same. As it is, there is a ton of design convergence between Week 1 Regionals and Championships.

Huge negative #2 - many students (for a variety of reasons) don't get to participate in FRC for all 4 years of high school. Repeating the same game would rob many of these students from the "Oh my god, how are we going to do this" moments that is an important part of the feeling of accomplishment that comes when your robot finally scores a tube/ball/whatever.

There are many, many more negatives (far more, in my opinion, than there are positives)
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