Taking the Bag out of Bag Day

[Zebra_Fact_Man]

Someone remind me again, what is the purpose of bagging the robot?

If it's leveling out the playing field, it doesn't do that at all, because now only the teams rich enough are going to be able to buy/build a second robot to iterate, improve, and get better before their first event. If it's leveling out the playing season, again it doesn't do that either, because with second robots, teams are still increasing their level of ability as the season goes on, and quite often, the really wealthy teams will schedule extra regionals just to work out all the kinks. If it's to put a hard stop on the build season, NOPE, not doing that either. My team (mostly freshman this year) was running behind schedule, so we've barely started our second robot, which means that we're going to be busy building straight through until our first event.

I used to think it had a purpose on my former team which was always strapped for cash, but now that I'm with a team with a little bit more money to spend, it really does nothing beneficial to any teams. Furthermore, I can't think of one instance in industry where some management organization is going to tell you "nope, hands off; you can't get better anymore".

Someone please show me the light of way.
I know this is not what this thread was intended for, so my apologies if we deviate course a little bit here.