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Originally Posted by LedLover96
By the time build season is over, I find that a large majority of the students are burnt out and need to take a break from robotics. . . . Making build season longer would just hurt these students even more.
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Originally Posted by Twest3259
I for one, would enjoy a longer build season do [sic] to my loss at what to do immediately after when the meetings slow down from every day to twice a week.
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Given
FIRST's long history of a six week build season, I think the best thing to do is to stick with it. Any change would risk significantly unbalancing the current competitive dynamic.
Really, whether extending the build season helps or hurts a certain team (or even individual) depends on the team (or individual) in question
(see the quoted material above). I think the only fair method of determining whether a new build season length will help or hurt the FRC community is to conduct an exhaustive survey of how a longer build season would affect every team and create a new rule based on that survey’s results. I think the complexity/reward ratio for such an effort would be too high to warrant attempting it.
Now, let's step away from reasoning. From an emotionally charged perspective, I'd say
"No!"—six weeks is long enough.