After reading this thread as well as the other one, I've gone back and forth on what my opinion is. It's a really hard call to make, and it'll impact every team differently because there's so much diversity among how programs are run.
Specifically regarding 1124 and my own time in the program, I believe a longer build season will help us. We already spend 10+ weeks meeting 6/7 days; it's a huge commitment and my sanity and grades can't take anything more than that. But if we didn't have to build a second robot and could move right into iterating the first one, that'll take a huge amount of work and stress off our shoulders (in addition to money saved on duplicating the robot).
But for other teams who don't already spend the entirety of kickoff through competition working, I can see where more time might be a problem. A good start would be the idea posted above about an extensive survey of many more teams than post actively on CD (we're not a representative sample of the entire community) to see what the majority opinion is and go from there.
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Originally Posted by MathMaven
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.
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