[Basel A]

Removing stop build day would be tremendously helpful to my team and others like us. We're a mid-level team, maybe the 50th to 60th best team in Michigan. Building a practise robot is both a significant financial burden and a significant temporal burden. A few $k can go a long way (an extra event, new tools/equipment, extra stock/components/motors). As for time, building a practise robot takes enough time to hurt the quality of our robot at our first competition. Over the course of the competition season, the practise bot makes up the ground, but not having to build one at all would immediately make our robots better.

I'm honestly not sure which teams making this change would hurt. I suppose it would narrow the gap between the teams who have to struggle to make/use a practise robot vs. those that do it pretty easily. But those teams aren't the type to shy away from competition.