Mythical Six Week Build Season

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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

Again, your missing the point. You can build a SUCCESSFUL robot in 6 weeks. Over the past 9 years, my team has only made significant changes at competition twice. We've been finalists 3 times, winners twice, and almost always play in eliminations (usually as captain or first round pick). And all of that is done with a student led team that emphasizes training and experience over getting the perfect robot out. Sure, if it was just the mentors on our team building, we'd be done in a week. But the mentors do very, very little building.

The point is, the schedule may be a limiting factor to how much you can do, but it shouldn't be a limiting factor in producing a successful robot if your team can develop a good process and plan for the season.

That's fine. You built the robot and it placed highly in competition.
My point is that building the robot is not enough.
The fact you can take longer to build the robot is not always about adding features.

Team 11 & 193 (both in Mount Olive High School) both student led teams build generally at least 3 robots sometimes 4 in 6 weeks. Sometimes we add on a few prototypes as we go. One major reason we split the team was because with so many people on just Team 11 wouldn't get the full experience they could have. Now we facilitate that at the cost of a whole extra team.

So it's not just about building the robot. If it was I wouldn't need FIRST.