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Originally Posted by hawktomatoes
The only problem I see with this is that there is a 6 week build season for a reason and extending it gives some teams more of an advantage for driver practice and ability to alter their robot. You'd be seeing more 5-7 competition week robots at champs most likely. I can also see regionals being moved out farther in competition season so they have more time to change things and perfect their robot. If they could figure out a way to make this fair, I think that it would be a great idea. FIRST is changing a lot currently, maybe the bag day rule will sometime be changed. I just hope it's for the better.
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I don't follow your logic at all.
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Originally Posted by hawktomatoes
The only problem I see with this is that there is a 6 week build season for a reason and extending it gives some teams more of an advantage for driver practice and ability to alter their robot."
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It gives ALL teams the advantage of more driver practice, vs now where some have it and others don't. I don't see any problems.
Why would regional/district events change their dates? It has nothing to do with robots bagged/unbagged and everything to do with location availability. Assuming events don't change, all week 5-7 teams will be better than they currently are now, and all week 1-2 teams could build/practice on their comp. bot straight through to their competition, making them better too. Everyone wins, and the field is more fair than it currently is now, where well-to-do teams have the sizable advantage. Teams that do week 1 events are still going to do them for the same reason they do them now; they are more ready than everyone else.