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Re: Eliminating "Start Build Day"
Folks,
Would anyone disagree with the broad statement that a dramatically longer build season is likely to increase FRC teams' appetite for cash (to use experimenting with and/or improving the robot(s) they build)?
I understand that rush-shipping costs might generally drop (so long as good ideas are scarce near the end of the new build period). However, I suspect that in a dramatically longer build season, that reduction would be more than offset by the extra parts an evolving robot would consume.
For that reason, I think a dramatically earlier start date would put cash-poor teams at a greater disadvantage than the current season does.
I am assuming that human nature will result in most teams using a dramatically longer build season to put more labor-hours and more design iterations into their robot.
If I'm right, the increased hunger for cash would be one "Con" to remember.
Blake
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