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Originally Posted by EricLeifermann
I voted for 10+ and am a mentor with everything you mentioned minus a house that need maintenance.
Having a build season that doesn't have a stop build day would just represent what many top level teams area already doing with practice bots, extending the build season way past the 6 weeks. Saying that the current build season is 6 weeks is a lie and its time to update the build season schedule to match what teams are already doing. It will save teams money(not having to build a 2nd robot) and hopefully save teams sanity(take more time off during build to relax as teams are in less of a time crunch. Not all teams and everybody will take time off but there are plenty who will.)
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Same vote, same reason (well, minus dependents but with the addition of classes as well as a job). I run a 3-hour-one-way commute to my team every weekend in build, plus usually 6-hours-in-one-night at least one night a week. I wouldn't do that in a 10 week build if you paid me, and I'd be ecstatic about it. Perhaps an extreme case, but if you're willing to work to defy Parkinson's Law, 10+ (no stop build) has incredible upsides.