Mythical Six Week Build Season

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by gblake

A) because I believe lengthening the build season is so unlikely (for an overwhelming majority of the teams) to affect the root causes and symptoms that people are hoping to affect, and
B) because I focus on FIRST's as a program that uses competitions, but doesn't exist to *be* competitions; I think we should park lengthening-the-build-season in the examined-but-rejected-because-of-very-low-ROI pile.

We/FIRST have better/bigger fish to fry. YMMV

Blake

Mike, Myself, Jim, others (as far as I can tell) aren't advocating in lengthening the schedule at all, just skipping bagging.

Any team that doesn't want to use more doesn't have to.

Elite teams are already working in this time anyway.

By keeping the status Quo FIRST is essentially endorsing a full open season for high resource teams, and a 6 week build for low resource teams.