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Originally Posted by Holtzman
We would approach the season in one of two ways. Don’t compete at any early season events in order to maximize our testing and debugging time. Or build two completely different robots, one that was good enough to win an early regional and qualify, and another potentially completely different one designed and built for the championship. The second one would probably not be started until after week 1 of regionals, and would never compete before the championship.
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Really interesting point. Now I have more things to think about...
I still believe as it currently is set up, "build season" is from Kickoff to CMP. I agree with Tyler's closing thoughts on what next year could look like...
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Originally Posted by Holtzman
If you want to see the most competitive and capable robots battling it out at the championship, open it up more, but be prepared to see some negative side effects as a result. If you want less mentor burnout, keep it at 6 weeks or less, get rid of the withholding allowance, and don’t allow any fabrication or software development after bag day, but don’t be surprised when we have lots of brave little toasters taking the field.
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If this is the choice put in front of FIRST, what would they choose? I think we'll see a change next year, I just don't know in what direction.
-Mike