The 6 Week Build Season and 'Mentor Burnout'

[Tom Ore]

I'd vote to keep the 6 week build season and a much smaller withholding allowance. Mostly because that's how we function on our team. It would have been great to have a few more days to tune software to improve our consistency, but that's our fault for building up until 11:53 PM on stop build day.

In 2010, 2011, and 2013 we competed at champs with the robot exactly as bagged on stop build day. In 2012 we added a load sensor to help with ball variation but otherwise made no functional changes.. While on one hand I'd love to keep upgrading to improve our robot, on the other hand it's somehow enjoyable to make a plan early in build season and see how it all plays out (especially since it's gone fairly well for us over that span.)