[timytamy]

As an international team, we would need a stop build day regardless.

Generally, we need to crate and ship the robot at least a week before a regional. And if we're going to championships, or another overseas regional, there is no time to ship it back, work, and ship it out again.

Granted, in Australia we have a regional now. This however dosen't help a lot of other teams.

At the Australian regional, we were also very lucky to have some US teams come over. I think if you eliminated bag and tag, then teams that may be interested in going to regionals luck ours, would be discouraged for losing that 2 or more weeks or robot time in transit. I'd be intereseted to hear what the Hawaian teams think of this.

I think eliminating stop build day would give a massive boost in competetivness to many teams, but there would be a group that are left behind.