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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz
Brendan,
I ask you to consider the team that has followed the prescribed build schedule, shipped a robot on time and gets to their first and only competition to find that they are either severely overweight or have left out a critical robot function. How does a decision to prevent build or modification at this event affect the team, the students? How does this decision hamper every team who finds them as an alliance partner and essentially prevents any team from rendering assistance as required by GP?
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Al, I understand your point. You are hitting exactly my point with this reply. Yes, please consider this team. They show up at an event with an overweight or otherwise flawed design. This would have been caught on the Saturday pre-ship inspection rather than Thursday at noon when they finally get into inspections at the event.
I am attempting to solve two issues with this proposal. The desire for teams to play more rounds plus the ongoing issue of teams having a complete panic day on Thursday trying to accomplish what should have been accomplished at home on a reasonable schedule.
Nothing in this proposal excludes teams from working on their robot Thursday. However, they are required to finish their robot work at home 2 days early. That gives them a full two days to repair their issues, rather than doing it in panic mode.
This is just a change in thinking. We have all become too used to the previous schedule. Teams will make this work.