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Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV
I just don't see how this is any different from it is now. There are a few teams that already work 7 days a week for 4 months and most of them aren't world champions. Yet there are teams that work 4 or 5 days a week and constantly produce top 25 robots in the world. I strongly believe there is a limit to how much time can really help in terms of getting from 90% to 99% in terms of robot quality. You could give some teams half as much time as everyone else and they would still build a world class robot, they have been doing it longer and just are better at than other teams.
However, getting from the bottom 20% to the middle of the pack, time can make a huge difference.
My team meets nearly everyday, but that's not because we think we have to if we want to compete to be world champions. It's because we like seeing each other and I believe it's good for the program. Every team has their reasons for doing what they do.
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In my opinion, I think Mr. Gregory summed it up pretty nicely. It's not so much time that teams need, (although I think a 7th week might help quite a bit, rarely do I see even from the top FRC teams a bot ready to go week 1) but it's the motivation to want to be better that is required. FRC is a serious time commitment, and I'm having a tough time believing that teams won't make efforts to squeeze every bit of time out that they can. Again, it's a choice, but I think more teams will try to use it all rather than use it effectively.