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Originally Posted by Jessi Kaestle
Though this number does seem high, we should keep in mind that the question was worded such that the second "robot" did not have to be equivalent to your bagged robot, just that it allow testing of some aspect of your robot while it was bagged.
By that stance if you build a kit-bot on wheels to test programming or a spare arm and use that to test shooting angles, those both count as "second robots" per that question
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You're right, but at the same time, any team building a non-bagged robot is continuing work after Stop Build Day. So every one of these teams is at the very least spending man-hours on a project (and probably money) in order to allow post-bag development of their robot. The bag is such a significant constraint that half of 2/3rds of FRC actively works around it, and is already not observing the "six week build season".
I'm curious to hear from teams that build significant or full practice robots that wish to keep bag day. That's probably where I'll learn the most about this perspective.