Taking the Bag out of Bag Day

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Originally Posted by 2544HCRC

100% Agree that FIRST should just do away with bag day. Elimination would level the playing field in more than 1 way. I agree that teams that can afford multiple bots and multiple regionals are at an extreme advantage. No bag day would mean that teams would need no reason to have multiple bots, except for this year maybe when extended practice might grind robots into dust, but that is another issue.

The only problem I see with this is that there is a 6 week build season for a reason and extending it gives some teams more of an advantage for driver practice and ability to alter their robot. You'd be seeing more 5-7 competition week robots at champs most likely. I can also see regionals being moved out farther in competition season so they have more time to change things and perfect their robot. If they could figure out a way to make this fair, I think that it would be a great idea. FIRST is changing a lot currently, maybe the bag day rule will sometime be changed. I just hope it's for the better.