[meaubry]

Paul is correct, and I find it ironic that if FIRST were that concerned about everyone putting down their tools and relaxing after 6 weeks of intensive designing, building, programming, testing, altering, modifying, practicing, and shipping - that they would have allowed the teams to decide when they could best fit the total of 10 hours of fix it time into their schedules.
This way is gonna be way more of a burden than if they had simple said "you get 10 hours total, between this time on this day and this time on that day - now go divide it up the best way it fits your teams use of the time".
After all, it is truly up to the honesty of each team to abide - and we will abide, but this doesn't help a thing as far as I can see.

What next? No prototyping ideas in the off season? everyone put down your tools after the main event in Atlanta? The real giant leaps occur when teams are allowed to continue making robots that work - and when teams are gracious enough to share the concepts/designs and even more improvement is made.

Robot games with robots that don't work - just aren't appealing to most people. If this is to level the playing field it will NEVER be a reality.

Just my 2 cents for what its worth