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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. 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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I would say that over half of the teams quit on bag day, easily. They may even quit before. A lot of teams only work weekends. Some show up to competition with a box of parts or even an old robot. A few teams don't show up at all. Teams do a lot of things differently, and a big one is how much they meet. It doesn't really change the fact that bag day is an artificial wall that some either circumvent with money, time, or both, and some don't circumvent it at all.
Over half the roster at most events sit out during eliminations. Why not end the event there since most teams aren't doing much after qualification matches are over?