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Originally Posted by animenerdjohn
I think you misinterpret my tone and purpose. Capping money, or limitations on it isn't the problem at all. Wasting it is. If everyone is going to build two why make teams waste that money. Let them use that couple of thousand on attending another regional. One of the biggest reasons for the district model is to allow teams multiple events. Students would learn more from attending two regionals and iterating their design between them, than refabricating a second bot.
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Sorry about that, I think I did misunderstand your intent as "this isn't fair" versus "what is the point". I can see the argument for allowing build to continue through the regionals. If your only regional is a later regional, it is likely the better teams have already attended more events to iterate their design, and you are at a disadvantage because of less time to hone the design. I don't see how it would detract from the intent of FIRST to allow even more time to hone the design. I also don't think it would be terribly unbalancing to allow free build through week 6 of events.
However, I do think 6 weeks is already a good balance between enough time to create a very capable robot, and avoiding catastrophic impact to work/personal life. Six weeks of working the bare minimum at work and very little family time (~10% of the year) is already a strain, though one my boss and wife understand. If I tried to do that for 3 months a year, it might reach a breaking point. For that reason, I support the stop build, and I look forward to sleeping tomorrow night
