[Jim McGeehin]

As to my opinion, which may or may not matter, I do believe that the benefits of keeping robots a while far outweigh the perceived unfairness. As many have brought up, driver training is important, no, ESSENTIAL to the success of the team almost as much as selecting alliance partners is. Plus, regionals give a good chance to tweak the small things of a robot that couldn't be seen in isolated practice environments. This leads to a higher degree of competition come nationals.