[Karibou]

Originally Posted by pathew100

As a mentor, on one hand, I like where this is going.

On the other hand, I liked it when build 'ended' on ship day. There was a certain finality to it. It used to be a 'hard' deadline. I enjoyed things like sleeping again. And spouses were happier.

Now with the WITHHOLDING it seems that build doesn't end on ship day. Or at all. Instead we just have less to build with.

I completely agree with this - I liked the hard deadline. I liked being able to finally put the robot in the crate freshman year and say "it's done, it's done, it's done!" (I'm not as much of a fan of FiM, with the bagging and such, but that's a completely different apple) If we did not have the withholding allowance, I might have time to work on getting a team consensus for the nominees for the new award - we wouldn't have any robot-related items to work on until the team's chosen unbag time on Saturday. Right now, we have half of our robot out of the bag, and it's being assembled on the prototype chassis - we might be able to drive again tomorrow if everything gets wired up quickly. My team is small, and this is really putting a strain on our capabilities. Trying to write a total of 8000ish words with a robot sitting safely in the bag is easy, but it's significantly harder when you're constantly asked to be in the shop working on an unfinished practice robot.