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Originally Posted by AdamHeard
Weird.
We're very transparent on our team that we essentially work year round, and that build season extends through the last day of champs. Doesn't seem to cause anyone to lose faith halfway through.
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Originally Posted by MrForbes
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.
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To be honest, the fiction of a six week build season helps keep
me on the team, even though most years I'm the most gung-ho mentor (and often member in any capacity) to continue working until the season is over. While we certainly do not stop all robot work at bag and tag, we usually do take about a week off (or at least mostly off), apart from driver practice with the "other robot". After a week or two of driver practice and a week or two of watching videos, we'll work on adjustments. Key build team members usually work on designing and building adjustments, while other members work on getting the pits ready, organizing scouting, and other functions such as give-aways. We're usually back up to about 80% of the "build season" operations tempo by the time we go to Bayou.
I really believe that we would come out behind if we had a "full-on" development season right up to our competition, due to the numbers who would not commit anything. YMMV.