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Originally Posted by Joe Johnson
I think that it is a good thing. It is a mercy rule: It saves us from ourselves.
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I'm going to agree with you on this one. Whenever you have no limit on something (money, time, type of material) people are going to indulge themselves 100% to utilize it. Having several more weeks of software development just widens the gaps between the haves and have-nots, especially those teams who have built a second robot in the past specifically for software tweaking in addition to driver practice.
I think that mentors of this program have been telling FIRST for a while now, "Can we please make this just a 6 week competition? I have a family." This rule change definitely helps this out.
Matt