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Re: New FIRST competition structure in Michigan

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Originally Posted by joeweber View Post
I will take the loose of Thursday to get a chance at a second event any time. We will now know ahead of time to make sure our robot is working better when we bag it up after build. If you have a committed team there is no reason not to complete your robot build on time.
254 and 968 would beg to differ, as would many other excellent teams.

You can't just choose to make sure the robot will be working better than normal. Not once has our team ever slacked off because we knew we would have Thursday to finish the bot. Every year for the last 3 years we have slept in our lab from Thursday night to Tuesday morning, in an effort to finish our robot. There was nothing in any of those years we could have done to be more prepared for Thursday of the event.

Stuff happens, and Thursday is invaluable for many teams. Eliminating Thursday won't hurt teams like 254, because we would be able to accomplish more in our own shop than at the event, but it will hurt the teams that need the help the most-those that show up, with all kinds of work to do, with a 30 lb overweight robot that isn't totally put together.

With the current setup, other teams at the event will take notice of said team struggling, and help them to be ready come Friday morning.

Now those teams will be forced to do it all themselves in 8 hours, instead of 12, with no other teams around for help.
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