Withholding most of your robot? Read this

[Jon Stratis]

Originally Posted by animenerdjohn

I mean we're working on its twin for the weeks up to regional. All FIRST is doing is making us spend twice as much money to stay competitive.

Define "stay competitive". There are literally thousands of teams out there that don't build two robots, and many of them are still competitive. Over the past 7 years, my team has made it to elims every single year - winners once, finalists 3 times, semifinalists 3 times, and quarter finalists 4 times. There were only two events we didn't make it to the elims at. I would say we're competitive, yet we've never built a second robot.

FIRST needs a stop build day because there are still teams out there that have to ship their robot to their competition. Simply put, they live too far away from an existing regional to make transportation for a robot practical. Is it fair for those teams to loose out on one or more weeks of working on their robot?