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Originally Posted by Jeff Waegelin
They're called time zones. Yes, they do get 3 extra hours in absolute terms, but you also have to keep in mind that their day doesn't start until 3 hours later, also. So, if a team started working at 3PM yesterday on the East Coast, and worked straight through 'til 5PM today, they would get 25 hours. If a team on the West coast did the same thing, also starting at the end of the school day at 3PM Pacific time, they would still only have 25 hours to work. Yes, over the course of the six week build period, they do get 3 extra hours, but those hours are basically lost due to time differences, anyways.
From another standpoint, what would happen if all teams were required to ship at exactly the same time? Teams on the West Coast would have to ship their robot at 2PM. If they wanted to put in an hour or two working after school today, so they could pack up their robot, they wouldn't be able to, because the deadline would have passed. Thus, the teams on Eastern time would have an advantage. So all in all, it makes sense, if you look at it in relative terms.
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I completely agree. Even if we worked on our robots 24/7 during the six-week build period, 3hrs out of approx. 1008 is not really a big deal. I think that the solution is that there is no solution...you need to have a problem to have a solution.
-->Kickoff is satellite feed...time delay?
--->Even if there was a time delay, certain teams might be able to watch it earlier through other means, making it unfair for the other western teams.
I say, just leave it how it is, every team will have whatever machine that they come up with after 6 wks, +or- 3hrs will not give any team a large dis/advantage over any other team.
----->Also...Think of it this way: Some teams might meet from 2-7 every single day, whereas some may only meet from 2-5. That means, in two days, the 2-5 team would have had 4hrs less time to work on the robot than the 2-7 team. Know what I mean?
"Problem" solved.