[waialua359]

Originally Posted by Oblarg

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.

Sorry, have to argue this one. We do Week 1 events and we barely have enough time to get our robot and our team prepared to the event. Some of us still have to fly to events, including our robot.
Normally our robot is shipped out either on the last day of build season or the next.