[Libby K]

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

In this instance, you can make this an easy opportunity to develop b-roll for build and competitions, or use the time for just about anything else under the sun. Maybe a team holds a kickoff event for rookies or has a special night with the community to show off their robot and program. Maybe a team has a really cool outreach event in between events. Teams can do anything on any given day of the year, why impose limits over a deliverable that can be independent of the submit construction?

This is what I meant in my post earlier in the thread -- if the deadline was extended to next CMP, they could be using the entire year & build season to compile the media they're going to use, and make a quality product by the time the next homework is given out.

Something that's this big of a project needs more time than just April-November (and in the cases of teams who didn't see Dean's speech, August-November -- or whenever it was that the guidelines were released.)

FIRST has heard about the discussion going on here -- well, the relevant and useful parts of it. (Not so much the arguing about JrFLL.) Hopefully something will come of that. I'd love to see the submission box left open so that people can continue to produce content.