[marshall]

Originally Posted by Joe Derrick

The great thing about Surveys are that usually the results are posted. I would expect FRC and Frank to release the survey results along with their response. I find it hard to believe that they would release this survey question without the possibility of significantly altering bag day procedures. My question is this.

Would any changes that might result go into effect this season, or would they be for 2017/2018?

I in no way blame you for not knowing that they posted a follow up blog about this very subject:

http://www.firstinspires.org/robotic...rn-of-an-award

Originally Posted by Frank

Yesterday, I announced the opening of a survey in which we ask for feedback on Stop Build Day. I should have included the information that, regardless of the survey results, no significant changes will be made to the Stop Build Day system for the 2017 season. We would want to publish information relating to any substantial changes to the system many months in advance, hopefully not later than early- to mid-summer of the year before. So, for example, if we were intending to make major changes for the 2018 season, we would want to announce them in early- to mid-summer 2017. We know that teams order their lives around the build season, and it would be unfair of us to make any significant changes with less notice than that. I apologize for not including this information in yesterday’s blog, I certainly should have done so.

Note that we have already announced that FRC teams will have a world-wide, simultaneous stop-build time in 2017. I recognize that for some teams this change might be considered ‘significant’, and so required more notice than we gave, but my sense is this tweak is not likely to change the planning required for major family or personal events for too many folks.

Frank, remember how I said you needed to unify communication and over-communicate? Perhaps sending out another email with the clarification in it would have been in order.