[NShep98]

At this point, I feel like FRC has settled into its current time frame. Any earlier and you run into winter break. Any later and you risk making venue scheduling even worse, as well as encroaching upon pre-existing offseason events, AP tests, etc.

I can't really say kickoff is "artificial" in the way Stop Build might be for some teams, especially since the rule right now is you can't use anything made/developed before kickoff unless it is publicly available. Mess with that rule too much, and I fear we will get the same complaints as we do with Stop Build, that high resource teams will be getting that much more time than other teams.

Additionally, one could argue that the reason FTC and VRC have such significantly longer seasons is because they are meant to be less intense than FRC. Part of the appeal of a "six week build", even considering the time available after Stop Build, is the idea of having such a limited amount of time for the challenges FRC offers.

As far as Kickoff goes, I don't see altering that as necessary. I feel like the culture of publicizing pre-kickoff resources, and how that can be expanded, would be much more useful to look at.