[FRC Blog] 2017 Einsteins and More

[AllenGregoryIV]

I feel like this was a made up problem. International teams traveling are already at an inconvenience having to ship out early and things like Glen just said (I know Hawaii isn't international). Most of the other teams are competing with people from their timezone or very near it anyway for their regionals and by championships a few hours probably doesn't matter anyway. I don't know of any team that uses every hour of build season, if you want an extra few hours, show up earlier or stay later through out the season. Many can't fully utilize the "extra" build time they did have since it was so early in the morning on kickoff anyway or will now be late at night/morning on bag day.

Teams that compete at more events have more time with their robot and teams with practice robots have more time as well. We are trying to make an unfair system appear more fair but with very little actual consequence. Why? Let's get rid of Stop Build already and actually start to see improvements.