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Re: Mythical Six Week Build Season

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Originally Posted by PayneTrain View Post
I have difficulty understanding this point of view. Do you not understand that

A) teams are already meeting after stop build day at a volume similar to build season
How many teams do this? 5%? 10%? 20%?

There are a lot of teams that quit building on bag day, and they show up to the competition with 6 weeks worth of designed and built robot. It appears that most of them are not on CD during the off season, to comment on threads like this.

I like the 6 week cutoff. This year, our team is going to build two robots and keep going from January to April. Not my decision, but I'll go along and see how it works. We are not meeting as many hours each day, as well.

I understand that FIRST can't really control the whole practice robot thing, so it is really difficult to enforce stop build day.

I kind of like a firm deadline. I even depend on it, for most of my own projects. I can't seem to get anything done unless it needs to be done by such and such a day. Maybe I just use bag day as a crutch...or maybe the limited build time was part of the original idea of FRC...
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