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Re: What can FIRST do to increase FRC team sustainability?

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Originally Posted by jman4747 View Post
I'm not saying everyone should or can do anything I'm writing rather I'm giving you some examples of how someone can use the added time to improve their specific situation. If you would rather not spread out your meetings then don't. If you want to meet every day anyway then do. You seem to think I think that everyone will benefit significantly and that for this idea to be valid everyone needs to. Of course everyone won't take advantage of it properly but their are people who will and if that ends up saving that team it was worth it.
What we're saying is this:

If you want to be competitive with your local powerhouse, this schedule will make. things. worse. I can't be any clearer than that. You're not helping the teams that don't do time management well.

And the reason is that while you're spreading out your time to ease up a little on your crew, they're maintaining their schedule and using that extra time to get that last 10% of untapped optimization down to 5%, 2.5%, you get the idea.


Let me put it this way: I can think of at least one team that would still show up at their first event needing a lot of help. And by a lot of help I mean that they'll be lucky to have a structure with some functional parts mounted to it when they show up. Not having to deal with a bag probably won't make a difference.
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