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Originally Posted by Michael Corsetto
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...
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
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I think they'll pick something in-between. Keep the 6 weeks but allow an un-bag day and some reasonable withholding allowance so people can do minor improvemnents/repairs, practice and programming. Bots get a little better but we don't open pandoras box of cloning and the robot design meta-game where you have to build a second completely new robot in order to compete at worlds.
I *like* that teams 1986, 1114, 254 benefited by coming up with such incredible "do-almost-everything" designs. With the limited build, they are able to feel confident to freely share what they came up with. When you go to a team's pit, most teams are happy to show you any detail of their robot. If we make the build season wide open, teams will all just take the best ideas and bring completely new robots to worlds.
No-one who wants to have a chance in the competition will be working "less" if we have a wide open build season. We will all be designing our "worlds" robot and building it in the final weeks. Tyler described it very well in my opinion.