FRC Blogged - An Early Option

[BigJ]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

I'm a little confused as to how FIRST expects teams to be ready to order parts before knowing what their robot is going to even roughly look like. Won't this just encourage people to start "pre-building"?

I think it's more a calculated risk between having what you usually use with no lead time during build season vs. using your voucher credit on stuff you didn't end up needing. With regards to pre-building it's just another "trust people", like telling the turth on your bag sheet, actually staying under the withholding allowance, etc.