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I could see arguments to both. As a team that builds a practice bot, I'm sure our team is for removing stop build day since we work through competitions season anyways. That being said, low resource teams or teams with not so time committed mentors might not like the change. Stop build day is a good excuse for mentors to not have to work for another 6-8 weeks and although building a practice bot is an option, it's a HUGE obstacle a team has to overcome both financially and time wise in order to continue working after stop build day. By removing the obstacle, their really isn't that great of an excuse to stop working other than the fact that you don't want to and all the less time committed mentors would be looked at as real bad guys. Heck the rest of the school might look down upon the team if they stopped working after 6 weeks when their season is 12. So yes while teams that don't want to work past 6 weeks could just decide not to, there is a lot of pressure to continue working, especially if the students want to(let's be real, most students would want to).

I'm okay with whatever FIRST decides. Especially since the scenario I laid out is probably the reality of the majority of FRC teams. Even some higher caliber teams as indicated in this thread shows this.