[jman4747]

I think both sides see time management challenges associated with both and neither has a negative effect powerful enough to be a major detriment to FRC. But one has potential to greatly increase how effective a team is at whatever they want to focus on by giving them more time to do it.

I don't think the urgency of the build takes a major hit because of how I would compare it to an off season project. An off season robot can start from June and stop at January. That's a whopping 7 months. But if you are building one just for training (like a t-shirt cannon) ie not for an off season competition, you don't have anything to lose if you don't finish it. In build season, if you don't finish you won't do well at competition.

Basically the build season will still have urgency because you have something to gain or loose by not being on time unlike an off season t-shirt cannon or vision testing rig.