Quote:
Originally Posted by BrendanB
Could you explain this more? How would giving teams who only can afford or have time to build one machine be at a disadvantage from getting access to their robot over a long period of time?
Teams at the top end of FRC already have this with practice bot(s) and practice fields.
|
That quote was a summary from my entire post, whose main point was how resources would need to be stretched out further with a longer build time. Teams with more resources have more of an ability to stretch them out. (Please note that money is not the only, or even most important, resource.)
I understand your point that less-resourced teams would have more ability to develop a better robot, but wouldn't the same be even truer of a well-resourced team? Or would having no restrictions on stop build not change the way top teams develop their robots?
With Stop Build, all teams are still making some progress in their own way, but it's dampened progress, slowing down the acceleration of the gap between them.
(I think our vantage points on what constitutes a "top" team makes a big difference in this discussion. If we define it as teams that qualify for World Championships, do you think they all have fully-built practice fields? )