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Originally Posted by EricH
Now, let's see what happens if you stick the robot in the bag at the 45-day mark, and then once per competition week* you get to pull it out for up to X hours.
--Access for measuring
--Access for driver practice
--Access for programming
--Access to install that one item that just didn't quite make it into the bag...
And whaddayaknow, the district areas already do this (instead of a full practice day). So you can't say that that's a total unknown. Matter of fact, it's a known.
The real catch is that teams that don't want to open the bag can simply tell their members that "we're not going to use this time this week, go get some more sleep and catch up on homework".
*I'm not going to go into whether that's "week before your competition", AKA 1/event, or "week before any competition", AKA 1/week. Doesn't really matter for pure speculation.
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I think uniform unbag time would be good like Jim proposed. My only question would be does this come with a scale back on regionals to move to the district model of practice day starting at 5pm or would district teams get an extra 6 hours on top of the uniform 8? The unbag time exists so districts can operate on a shorter time frame of two full days plus one night for robot work/inspection that is scheduled from 5-10. It usually is more like 3-4 hours with teams setting up their pits, lines to unload, and other small issues.