Mythical Six Week Build Season

[waialua359]

I like the stop build day.
I found it odd that some feel it's an advantage for less resource teams to get rid of it. I feel the opposite is true.
More resources will allow the "better" teams to take advantage of what they see and do a quick turnaround before the next subsequent event.

Getting rid of the 6 week build season helps some teams but not the Hawaii and international ones. I dont mind it in VEX because we are doing all of our events locally where we can drive to events, similar to teams in FRC that drive to their events.

I realize that we are in the minority, so I totally get why teams would want to get rid of it. We are very fortunate and have been lucky the past 6 years in being succesful at regionals despite making almost no changes or none at all to our robot that is bagged at the end of the season. In fact, it never comes back home until after championships.
We have also never had the time to ever build a 2nd robot, because we spend most of the time traveling all the time!
For us, it makes no difference doing a week 1 or a week 6 event, our drivers need to be ready because other than the last week of build season to hopefully practice and get drive time, that's it until they do an event, subsequent events, and at Championships.

I always chuckle a little when teams say an event is a work in progress and will be back better at the next one. These events cost $$$$, and for us who have to travel there, a whole lot more $$$$$$$. I try to stress to our team that at each and every event, we need to be prepared the same as the last one we do.

This in my opinion is what makes build season special.