[Pauline Tasci]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

For the vast majority of FRC participants, being the best of the best at a worldwide scale is not in their vocabulary. Using the rationale of the very top echelon in terms of on-field success is not a representative sample for the FRC population as a whole. What it takes to "keep up" with these teams should not be a primary driving factor in determining what is the healthiest decision for the entire FRC team base.

Please refer to my verb usage.

You are not keeping up if you want to be the best of the best at a worldwide scale unless you do not stop working until comp with 2 robots (or more).

In my world, FRC teams should strive to get all they can out of the program and to learn the most they can. What I have stressed on my own team and my own career is the importance of iterative design and never having a product just be good enough. Strive to create the best thing you can, and any great engineer knows you can always improve your product. That thought process is how you become an innovative individual.
Eliminating bag day will give more teams an opportunity to continuously improve and learn from that on a cheaper scale. Imagine how many teams could add more things with more time! They would learn so much more about engineering.

FRC is expensive. And learning more for a cheaper price than 2 robots for a majority of teams seems like something we should be striving for.

Thanks!