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Originally Posted by GeeTwo
For sake of argument, let's assume the game is announced on the first Saturday after Labor Day, and competitions occurred the same weeks they currently do.
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As a Michigan mentor of FTC and FRC, this would be very rough. It is nice that up through FTC States (Super Regionals is a different matter), FTC and FRC do not overlap in Michigan, letting me separate the two build+competition seasons. If they overlapped, I probably couldn't do both.
Now one thing that strikes me about "things built before kickoff", is 3D printed parts. Many of them are small utility items where it seems a little silly to have to make new each year (unless there is a loophole in the rules I've neglected). Because they are a product that is as close to just a simple manifestation of a (for sake of argument) publicly available CAD file, should that count?