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

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Originally Posted by pfreivald View Post
Of course it's a choice. The question is whether or not we want to foster a reality where you either build competitive FRC robots or do anything else.
I don't think removing the build window alters reality that much. It gives teams with less resources the choice to build longer like many teams already do with practice robots. It give people more choices. There are competitive teams without practice robots now but its harder. There are also competitive teams that don't meet insane hours and take 2-3 days off each week.

The biggest point I'm going to keep restating is that removing the build window will allow a lot more time to help teams get better. More pre-event practice sessions, pre-event inspections and time to get help with problems. A huge subset of teams just plain need more time to work on their robot before it can be something that runs well at competition.
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