[PayneTrain]

Week 2/3 is a really nice sweet spot for one-competition teams. Week 1 events exist not because we always want them to happen, but because they have to. In the modern era of FRC, week one events (for me) have been thumbing around on Thursday waiting for the system to go online, a Friday of intermittent connections, and a real solid Saturday of play.

Week 1 benefits are the great competition, and the feeling of pioneering the game, seeing if you can twist the ideas the GDC had of the game into something cooler. That pioneering mantra comes with the perils of venturing into the great unknown... like communication failures and "missing rules" that will pop up in late competitions.