[BrendanB]

How do you think open season would effect the competition season? Would we see an increase in teams scrambling for week 4-6 events? How do you think week 1 would change? Would we see more copy cats? Do you think we might have teams hold out on really building their robots until the elite teams come out to play? I think back on 469 in 2010 and how many of us wished we could redesign our robot in an open build season you can. Would this play a role in how elite teams build and compete with their machines to come out late and not show all of their cards to avoid copies?

These are just some of the questions I see swirling around in the scenarios that play out if an open build season started. To a degree we do have clones like the minibots and ramp style deployment that swept 2011 but the minibots did have an open season policy on them and the witholding allowed for the cloning of the effective device. I would hate to see this spread to entire robots.