[JohnFogarty]

I'm going to say this just based on what I got as a comment when I told my Brazilian team we only work in Aiken...3 days a week.

If you worked every day for 6 weeks you could produce a pretty awesome machine....but since most teams can't there in-lies the problem.

Within this 6 week period you are going to have teams that work every hour they can and then you will have teams that don't have that time commitment available to them. I know for a fact that my Brazilian team told me they work every...single...day.

While Aiken County Robotics only works a 2 (2-Hour Nights) and 1 (6 Hour-Day) we make a working machine every season, but I can tell you as a veteran team older than 1114....we are no where near on their level.