POLL: Six Week Build Season

[Cory]

Originally Posted by Chief Hedgehog

The whole idea of a competition is to compete - to best your adversaries. I just fail to see how any adjustment could level the playing field for all teams.

Where do you see anything about people proposing this as an idea to "level" the playing field?

To level the playing field requires pushing the top teams down while pulling the bottom teams up. Nobody is claiming the top teams can be pushed down, by any means FIRST could use (see Jim's incredibly insightful, eloquent, and accurate comments on this, in this thread).

By eliminating bag day you DO have a chance to bring the bottom up.

People can argue all they want about whether they need FIRST to save them from themselves or not (the only argument I have heard, other than that the international teams benefit more than they do now, but disproportionately less than North American teams would under a no bag day rule set), but Jim showed us all the data. There is convincing proof that teams will get better if they have more access to their robots.