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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

What my whole post was saying was that yes, teams that WANT to can keep working at a break-neck pace for 12 weeks. Buts we can work as a community to create a culture that supports more manageable time investments, and I think you'd find a lot of teams willingly go along with it. But if we instead create a culture that expects everyone to work full-out for 12 weeks, it could be damaging to the program as a whole.

I think the only way to effectively move towards this in a fair manner would be to eliminate the long time period between stop build day and the first week of competitions. I'm open to suggestions for other policies that might have the same effect without the logistical issues, but I can't think of any and don't recall ever coming across any feasible ones.

I would argue that the culture you warn against already exists, in large part, and to the extent that it doesn't exist among lower-resource teams, its absence is mostly explained by the regressive impact of stop-build-day.