[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by Boydean

Learning how to work with a team, on a robot, in the middle of the night before ship date is what makes FIRST FIRST.

Or not.

It can also be about teams setting down a timeline and working within that timeline to get the product made. I read and hear stories of all the late night/all night frenzied build sessions in the shops. Ok. If that is how that team functions and the facility/mentors can handle the late hours - that's fine. Teams that work with shorter hours with a more time-managed plan can do that, too, and perhaps learn about those constraints in the process.

We can see in threads in CD, on a pretty regular basis, that teams will find ways to push the constraints/rules/guidelines to the max - trying to eek out whatever benefit they feel they can. Teams also complain. A lot. If teams compete in the 5th week with full access to their robot up until that time, the teams that competed before that 5th week will not sit quietly by and accept that those teams had so much more access to their robot than the earlier competitions did, I can just about guarantee that. And - I think we would see folks hitting burnout at a lot faster rate. Burnout at a higher faster rate would be very bad for FRC.

Jane