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Re: build season needs to be longer.

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Originally Posted by philso View Post
It might be worth noting that many of the elite teams also "develop technologies" for use in some upcoming season during the off-season time. When it comes time to apply those technologies during the build season, they can do it much faster.
Amen!

Here's a presentation I gave at the 2012 Hampton Roads FRC Summit on exactly this concept. Doing drive train development during the summer rather than during build season marked a turning point in the competitiveness of our team. It's the only way we can compete with the teams out there with high levels of fabrication resources.
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