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Re: Mythical Six Week Build Season

For most teams, I think removing the stop build day is a positive thing. It will make teams able to be more competitive and remove the need to build expensive practice robots.

However, teams who have to travel long distances to compete are at a disadvantage with the removal of stop build. If I have to ship my robot out a week in advance of an event, I lose that week of time to build and iterate. If you're a team that plans on attending a week 2 and 4 regional, for example, you lose out on week 1 and week 3 that your opponents have to iterate.


I would prefer one of the compromises illustrated earlier in the thread here, but given the choice between having a stop build day and not having a stop build day, I'd prefer not having it.
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