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Originally Posted by waialua359

And IMO, using VEX is a poor example of why we should get rid of the 6 week build season! Building a completely different VEX robot between events is NOT the same as bringing a somewhat different iterated FRC robot to your next event. Not even close! We spend a lot of time doing both.

This is a point I'm really stuck on. I hate the design convergence in VEX. I hate that teams, if they're driven enough, can completely scrap their robot between events and copy the most successful design they've found online. My VexU team is about to start our 2nd 9-week Release schedule for a Fall Scrimmage. We'll have another one before our Spring Qualifier. And another one before Champs. We'll have completed 4 separate build seasons. In the process we'll probably lose half of our active members again.

Obviously FRC is more complicated and it would be a lot harder to pull off copying a Week 1 robot that you see for your Week 6 or 7 event. Design convergence with some subsytems definitely currently happens by the end of the season, but those are mostly add-on subsystems, not a defining part of the robot.