The 6 Week Build Season and 'Mentor Burnout'

[Nemo]

A bunch of things gnaw at me. Here's a big one:

Competitive teams will be "forced" to spend more time than they already do if we had an open build season.

If that's true, then those same teams are already "forced" to build a practice robot and continue working on their 30 lbs of parts. It changes nothing.

I am pretty frustrated that when people are confronted with the concept of more flexibility, they twist it into the fatal certainty that they will be "forced" to work to the point of exhaustion.