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Re: Teams that do not bag their robots

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Originally Posted by DonRotolo View Post
Yes, make it very small, like 8 pounds.

A 30 pound mechanism can consume several weeks of 16 hour days, well after bag day. Us mentors are already exhausted after 6 weeks - extending build season due to withholding allowance makes the process unbearable.

Mentor burnout is real, and a big w/h allowance exacerbates it.
Honestly, we'd still do the work. All the same iteration, just leave the home version on the practice bot and add "fabricate at event" as an additional design requirement. It'd probably be even harder and more stressful than now, but I doubt we'd be able to live with not trying as hard to improve.
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