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Re: The 6 Week Build Season and 'Mentor Burnout'

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Originally Posted by Jared341 View Post
Both of these are already choices you and your team are making. If you have the money and time to build a practice robot, 30 lbs and unbagging time are all you need to keep on grinding. Eliminating stop build day would not rob you of the ability to make the same choices. Instead, it gives other teams (without the resources to make practice robot) the ability to do what you currently do.
The problem with self-discipline as a solution is that self-discipline essentially means: "choose between having a non-FIRST life or being competitive". If our team chooses self-discipline and goes back to our families and friends between februrary and march, it means we'd be middle of the pack at best at the competitions, because half the field or more will have been working during that time.

If FIRST mandates (and enforces) a shorter build season, then it means that you don't need to choose: you can work your butt off for 6 weeks, then relax, safe in the knowledge that the competition is also relaxing.
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