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Re: Team Update 14 (2016)

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Originally Posted by Chris is me View Post
Can we just get rid of bag day and withholding allowances already?
I'm with Chris on this one. I think everyone knows that the teams with the resources will build 2 or 3 or as many robots as needed to be competitive. Bag day really only hurts the teams that can only build one robot and that's a good chunk of FRC teams. 4329 builds two robots because it gives us a huge competitive advantage. We've iterated a lot over the past week in our shop & fixed things that would have absolutely killed our first regional performance.

Remove bag day and you level the playing field for a lot for teams. Districts help with un-bag windows but a lot of us aren't there yet. Not wanting to change this because 'that's the way it has always been' is silly - look at how well District events are going and how people were very hesitant to switch at first. Change can be a good thing and is necessary if we want FRC to grow.
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