[Ed Law]

I voted for 6 weeks. There is no good reason to change it. This allows us to "lie" to sponsors, potential mentors, people you want to impress that it was all done in 6 weeks. Technically we are not lying because the robot is there after 6 weeks. For many teams, it just usually doesn't work very well if at all. After the 6 weeks, it is not part of the "build season" any more. We got to spend more money and work on the practice robot for as long as we want, sometimes even spending more hours per week than the build season.

Some people are talking about a hard deadline of 6 weeks, adding rules to disallow practice robots, or anything that is used to get around the rules. That will really let people relax and happy after 6 weeks. (please note sarcasm)