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Originally Posted by s_forbes
I think this may be a misleading graphical representation of the time input vs performance for the reason you stated here. I'd suspect many teams that put in the effort to raise the funds to attend two regionals also put in more effort to build a robot that performs well. Their performance isn't based on playing time at regional events, there's just a correlation between the effort spent building a high performance robot and the effort spent raising funds for multiple regionals. I do agree that robot performance increases if a team has the opportunity to attend multiple regionals, however, and also agree with the point you're making.
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Jim, can you do the same thing comparing 1st and 2nd event just Michigan and MAR teams? I have to imagine it shows the same trend.
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Originally Posted by Jim Zondag
So ask yourself, are we really doing something smart with the machine access rules, or is all of this just a collection of old rules, imposed for obsolete reasons which have been forgotten?
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Originally Posted by Jim Zondag
Some of the people on this post say they may quit if the rules were changed, however we already have a system which actively kills teams by the hundreds each year. Which is worse?
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And if we do it for a season and it does really end the world as we know it... who says we can't go back?
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Originally Posted by Tetraman
Open build would give too much advantage to teams with the capability to travel long distances to their events or have events nearby for attending both a week 1-3 and week 4-6.
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I absolutely disagree. Closed build season gives the 2 event team at least 8 matches on the real field, plus a few practice matches, PLUS 3 days to work on their robot for their event registration. Meanwhile a team that is not competing does not get to practice, AND gets no time to work on their robot. Multi-event teams HAVE a huge advantage as is. Instead of leaving 1 event teams to be sitting ducks, moving to an open build season at least lets them learn, make changes, and most importantly practice like multi-event teams.