1114 has said they try to build their robot is 4 weeks so they have 2 weeks to change their robot.
I liked reading 254's build blog to get a perspective how fast my team should be building next year.
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=118797
The last couple of years, my team wasted too much time in the first 2 weeks. So we pratically built a robot in 4 weeks. So we are pushing hard this season to keep the robot simple and finish assembly at the end of week 4. At the the very least it gives us a 2 week buffer in case something goes wrong.
The key thing for me is how fast the drive system can come together. We could build a kit bot chassis in one day. So when we do our own drives, it has to be built fast and it has to be better than the kit bot drive. Spending 3 weeks on a drive only slightly better than the kitbot ain't gonna cut it.
I really want all the strategy discussions done on the first day, so we start CADing and building our universal parts right away.