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Re: Mythical Six Week Build Season

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Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV View Post
I've made my stance clear for a long time, the six week build season negatively impacts lower resource teams to a greater degree then large resource teams to the detriment of the entire program.

If we remove the build season limitation across the board we will see a dramatic increase of the quality of the product that we put on the field in front of the public.
I agree wholeheartedly with this, and think it's the most compelling and important argument against the 6-week build season. Yes, the top teams (and a growing number of middle tier teams) build two robots... expending more resources, etc.... but they'll always expend a lot of effort and will probably compete marginally better without the "6-week" system. The difference is that the teams that don't have the resources to make a second robot can suddenly have a far more developed product at their first event if they still put in at least as much effort.
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