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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz
Kevin,
As far as build, I can't tell you how many teams ship the robot and then analyze what they have done. Realizing their idea is flawed they plan on rebuild on Thursday at a regional. To not allow this, IMHO, would weaken the competition and hurt the students. It has always been my stance to tender all decisions based on the student impact. If the decision we make in any way wrongly impacts the students we need to rethink that decision. Experienced mentors know that the game changes throughout the season and to not allow design change to compensate weakens the competition.
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Based on Kevin's proposal, it does not completely take away from allowing teams to rebuild on Thursday. Teams have until 4 PM to complete inspection, teams would have a few hours to work on a rebuild.
However, the bigger issue is that Thursday being considered part of build season has to stop in order for this system to work. We have 6 weeks of build season, which FIRST has said is enough time for build season. 7 weeks they consider to much time and 5 weeks is not enough time. I know that my team blows our schedule on when stuff can get done in time during build. Teams need to keep in mind when they need to be finished with certain items on the robot during the build season. If you don't have a schedule in place get on or else you might not have a working robot at competition.
my $0.02