[Caleb Sykes]

Here's an idea, how about instead of eliminating bag day for all teams, FIRST says that any teams that are willing can opt-out of bag day provided they do the following:
Donate some amount of money, say $2000, directly to FIRST
Spend some amount of time during the build season, say 100 hours, volunteering with other FRC teams

Teams that don't build practice robots wouldn't opt out, so nothing changes for them. Many of the teams that currently do build practice robots would opt-out of bag day instead of building another robot, netting FIRST thousands of dollars and getting thousands of extra hours of support to teams that need it.



I'm being facetious of course, but honestly, it is possible that I would like this better than what we have now. All of that money and effort that high-caliber teams put into building a practice robot could easily be channeled into things that are more beneficial for the teams themselves as well as for the entire community.