[the programmer]

A lot of people are saying that eliminating build season will benefit low resource teams. I think the exact opposite would happen.

Right now, even if you do build a practice robot, it's a clone of your bagged robot that you use for driver practice and to test modifications. By eliminating stop build day, you don't stop teams from building a second robot, but you make that second robot a completely new iteration on the first.

High level teams have already proven that they have the time and money for this but the majority of the FRC community does not.

What this means is that instead of getting some advantage out of building a second robot, which some high level teams (610 if I'm not mistaken) have foregone, it now becomes almost impossible to compete at a high level without building a second robot.

My former team has built two robots since 2011 and my current team will start building a second robot this year. However, even with building two robots, the end of build season brings the intensity of our schedule way down.

Do, while I sympathize with the teams who don't have time to practice in the six week window, know that by eliminating the six week build season, low resource teams would have an even harder time keeping up and to be competitive, a build season intensity schedule would be required all the way through champs.