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Originally Posted by Ed Law
I really like this idea. However I don't think it should become a hard decision whether to build a practice robot or not. It should be a easy decision for most teams but for the super competitive people, they will decide to build one anyway. I would like to modify a little. After the stop build date, have the one week of hand off time for everybody on the competition robot. Then if a team has no event in a given week, they will be given 9 hours in one hour increment. If a team has an event to attend, they will be given 6 hours because they will be able to access their robot during competition. This will even the playing field a little for teams who does not have the resources to attend multiple events and registered for a late week event. If I have 9 hours a week, I will not build a practice robot which as I said before will allow me to reduce the number of meetings from 5 to 4 per week. Putting some limit will prevent people from building a brand new robot for championship after watching week 1 or 2 events. There should still be a 30 pound limit or higher to prevent completely new robot.
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I really like this proposal. It gives everyone a chance to access their robots later in the season on a uniform basis and can give lower resource teams who can't build a practice robot the time they need to practice/tune code and make any necessary changes.
It steps toward an open style season while still keeping the 6 week project like deadline but doesn't keep every team pressured to stay working constantly like an open season would.
I wouldn't mind seeing this in 2014!