[MrForbes]

One of our alliance partners last year built a practice robot, and they ended up spending Thursday rebuilding their competition robot. The robot did good, they were our first pick, but they also seeded poorly because of that darn practice robot causing them to spend Friday doing the practicing they should have been doing Thursday.

btw that's a team from a socioeconomically disadvantaged area, struggling to get funds.

I think that each team's situation is quite different. I don't see the bag rules helping or hurting too much...it seems to me that there are a few teams that have their act together enough to take good advantage of the "long" build season, but those teams are the same ones that would be figuring out how to win without the "long" build season.

In other words, it doesn't really make much difference in the grand scheme of things. I personally like the deadline.