How long for planning??

[Mr. Pockets]

Depends what you mean by planning. We generally like to have general strategy decided within two days and overall robot concept finished by week one (or whenever prototyping is all done, but ideally it's about then).

[SenorZ]

Our rookie year, last year, we took 1 week to figure out what all the KOP items were. We built the kit-bot at a quick build day 1 week in. We then spent another 2 weeks getting our designs set. And built like mad for 3 weeks.

We finished the robot as it was being loaded into a crate.

We're looking at 1 week for designing this year and are on track.