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

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Originally Posted by Cory View Post
40% of teams have no hope of ever getting anywhere near the great (or even pretty good) teams, IMO. The best hope would be that if you make build an open process the teams in the first two categories could have the ability (through more time) to help those "lower tier" teams to at least build functional robots that could meet some minimum standard of competitiveness.
Extending the build season is very far from the only manner in which this can be done. You're right that it is a possible solution to this problem, but it's only one of many, and I can think of quite a few that I would call better.
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