Team Update 14 (2016)

[Karthik]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

Can we just get rid of bag day and withholding allowances already? Who does it really stop anyway? Anyone who wants to be competitive (with some rare exceptions) just builds another robot. Rebuilds from the drive base up are not unusual even with just 30 pounds. Teams now plan their entire seasons around gradually upgrading and rebuilding their robots over the course of multiple events. No matter what insane patchwork of rules the GDC writes, any team that wants to win the world championship is going to squeeze every last drop out of the rules to do as much as they can as long as they can. Let's be done with this nonsense, so we can save teams across the world thousands of dollars each and make all of FRC more competitive. Aren't we all sick of this?

I do agree that there are many people who are sick of bag day along with the rules and restrictions that come with it. However, there are many teams and people out there who are in full support of bag day, many of which claim that they will no longer be involved in FRC if these restrictions are lifted. Frankly, I don't know which camp I'm a part of. However, I do know that there are enough people on both sides of this argument that we can't just assume that everyone wants to end the "6 week build".