[FIRST EMAIL] Stop Build Day Survey

[Nathan Pell]

Originally Posted by DonShaw

There needs to be a stop build day at some point or teams would enter the last possible events before states ( if a district model) to get more work time in on the robot. Teams that get a week one home event would be impacted by the lack of time.

In real world there are production deadlines at some point.

Just my fifty cents.

As others have pointed out, I believe you can look at the FTC and VEX program as real world data/examples of what happens with an open build season. You end up with some teams who don't want to be very competitive and they bring what they made and go home and are happy with it. Then you get the competitive teams who enter as many tournaments as they can to make improvements. As everyone knows the real test is when you put your robot on the field at an event and play the game. That is when you know for sure how the designs and mechanisms end up functioning. While I also completely agree the FRC build season should be like the FTC build season I think this would be difficult to do until all of FRC is district based. By having events close to your geographical locations makes it much easier to attend the events, and they are usually short thus requiring less time (if any) out of school. Here in Florida I don't see teams not attending the Orlando Regional just because it is 'early' and they aren't ready.