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Originally Posted by Whippet
tl;dr: low-resource "kickoff to bag" teams would benefit greatly from the removal of the build stop date, even if the only benefit was that they could have a little bit of practice time they could not have had before.
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Seems to me that the work expands to fill the available time. If you knew you had another 3 or 4 weeks to work on the robot, would you spend that time practicing with the same simple robot you usually build in 6 weeks? or would you build a "better" robot with the additional time, and still not get to practice with it?
We've had the same experience with practice on our FRC team, as well as other robotics projects. Setting a self imposed 5 week build deadline lets us spend a week getting to know our new robot, and we've done well at competitions using this approach.