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Originally Posted by niklas674
There is nothing stopping us from setting that limit, but if you had the option to keep working or stop earlier then most of the other teams, you would obviously keep working. The point is that given there is a set deadline vs a general time frame personally pushes me harder.
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That deadline doesn't exist now. Many many teams are building well past the "deadline". The only teams that aren't either don't have the resources or are choosing not to.
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Originally Posted by niklas674
Another issue with abolishing this is nothing is stopping a team from waiting until comp season to see what the best robot is and build that exact robot. It would eliminate originality. The current set up allows you to copy basic mechanisms I.e can grabbers but keep your robot basically the same.
I feel that the stop build day gives each student a possibility to think creatively and come up with an original design. Now I'm not saying that every team would do that but the option is there.
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There is something stopping them from doing it well. FRC Robots are hard and expensive. Would some teams try this, probably. Would they win a world title unlikely.
Do teams rebuild their robots in the likeness or other robots during the competition season already? Yes of course they do. In 2015 the robot we built during build season never even saw a single match of FRC competition. We stripped it down completely and built a new robot based on designs we saw. It's already happening, you can't avoid something that already exists. There are countless other examples of full in season rebuilds using inspiration from other teams.
The option to do that is already there, and very few people take it. Just like very few people would take it if we got rid of "Stop Build Day".