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Originally Posted by Rangel(kf7fdb)
Perhaps we should keep this thread focused on the topic at hand. Their are plenty of other threads about fundraising and the fairness of it that has been discussed extensively. As for whether to have a stop build day or not we would love to not have to build a second robot but we do so in order to be as competitive as possible. The money building a second robot is a waste really when we could have spent it towards another competition such as Robosub or maybe even take more students to championships and out of state trips.
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This. Especially in Québec, where at the moment we only have a regional, and the next closest is, notwithstanding districts, at a 4-hours drive from Montréal to the US, or 6-hours drive to Toronto (GTR-W, GTR-E, Oshawa), teams prefer to build a second robot to focus and be competitive for the Montréal regional instead of attending a second event, and IMHO, that's a shame. Stop build day, if there is one, should be as late as possible, i.e. the weekend before week 1 events. If FIRST is "not all about robots" as Dean and Frank often say, letting teams work on their single robot could shift money towards improving their robotics team, finding new mentors or giving students a chance to compete abroad and gain more experience.