[XaulZan11]

In regards to my previous post, I didn't say that qualification matches on Thursday was a good thing. I simply responded to a claim that matches on Thursday will lead to an even more unrepresentative top 8. I disagreed with that claim.

As it has been stated over and over in this thread, it will decrease the time the vets can spend helping with the rookies. This is a downside.

One positive (atleast in my mind), is that teams won't be able to rebuild their entire robot on Thursday. I've never been a fan of teams spending 6 weeks designing and building their robot, then see how the game is played and rebuild their entire robot to a sucessful design. I understand it is part of the engineering process (continous improvement) but it cheapens and downplays the 6 week build season too much, in my opinion.