[EricH]

Originally Posted by dirtbikerxz

In all honesty, given extra time, would a team (no matter what they say about liking stop build day) actually stop building based on a internal bag day?

Aye, be honest here. Be brutally honest. If people won't stop building based on an external bag day with some (albeit limited) enforcement, via a variety of legal methods, what makes some people think that people will stop building based on "We think we should stop building?"

Right. Not gonna happen.

So the question isn't "Do we remove Stop Build Day or not?" The question is really "Do we remove Stop Build Day OR do we put in some rules changes that enforce it--like, for example, reduced withholding, no out-of-bag time at all... Or even *gasp* shipping the robot to a neutral site?" Let's see... Shipping robots to all events not in districts ended for 2012 (and in districts even sooner)... out-of-bag started in MI District system in 2009... and witholding has been a thing since about 2009 if I recall correctly. Practice robots have been around since at least '04--and would be very hard to get rid of. Yeah. Not really a question.

I'm not really for removing the Stop Build Day. On the other hand, I can see where the suggestions to remove it are coming from, and sympathize. But then I wonder whether removing it will make things better or worse...