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Originally Posted by Tom Line
It will be very interesting to see how they handle that. Trying to give specific teams or specific areas extra season build time opens a can of worms.
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Agreed. I think this plays in the decision not to give an extension. Basically, there is no fair way to do it. If you give a region (like the 'east coast') an extra week, there will be teams in the midwest that missed a couple of days calling foul. Also, there are some teams that will receive the extension that did not miss any days so they will greatly benefit. A blanket extension for all FIRST teams won't really make things 'more fair' as everyone would be better off. So, if there is no good way to make things perfectly fair, why try to make things fair? I would rather have mother nature be the determinant of who wins/loses rather than FIRST.
I also would be wary of setting a precedent if I were FIRST. What happens next year if there is a huge lake effect snow storm that only affects Milwaukee? Or a specific team's build site loses power for a week? Where do you draw the line? I think the answer is never putting the line down in the first place.