Mythical Six Week Build Season

[Michael Corsetto]

Originally Posted by the programmer

Do, while I sympathize with the teams who don't have time to practice in the six week window, know that by eliminating the six week build season, low resource teams would have an even harder time keeping up and to be competitive, a build season intensity schedule would be required all the way through champs.

We are going to build three robots (1 comp and 2 practice) for 2016.

Why?

The competition season is longer than the build season.

We will do more development and iteration during the competition season than the build season.

We want two robots to iterate faster during the competition season.

I think its clear that the gap is wide between us and low resource teams because we have the money to buy 3x of robot parts, and get to play with two robots post-stop build, and low resource teams get to play with zero robots post-stop build.

You make the call if the gap shrinks when low-resource teams get to play with their one and only robot while we're playing with our two or three robots.

We meet 4 days a week.

-Mike