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Re: What does FRC sustainability mean to you?

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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson View Post
It's obviously not the way we've always done it. Back in the day, FRC had a single deadline for crating and shipping the robot.
The artificial stop build day is what I refer to when I say 'it's always been done this way.'

Back when we shipped robots it made sense - there were few competitions and transit time needed to be factored in. Now we bag and tag for some reason - even though it really doesn't make sense to. There's no need (except international teams) to crate up the robot and ship it anymore.

Why stifle a team's creativity and innovation by making them put their robot into a bag a few weeks before they'll actually compete?
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