[FIRST EMAIL] Stop Build Day Survey

[Michael Corsetto]

Originally Posted by Ernst

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.

You must really have hated 973's 2015 and 2016 robots...

What you wrote already happens. 1678 in 2013 is another example.

-Mike

Edit: I suppose my point hinges on how you specify a "defining part of the robot"