[FIRST EMAIL] Stop Build Day Survey

[cbale2000]

Originally Posted by dirtbikerxz

I really agree. When pitching FRC to my peers or strangers, and I show them our bot, they always ask "how long did that take you guys to build? several months?" The expression they have when I reply with 6 weeks is awesome.

Being able to challenge ourselves, and doing everything possible to get every last bit built within that time period is just plain fun. I mean sure, we are still working after build season end, but those "6 weeks" are truly super fun and worth it. I would not want to get rid of it.

Even if you expanded the definition of the build period to the start of competition season (because at that point, your robot should likely be "built", maybe just not working perfectly yet) even if you still allowed unlimited access, you could still say "8 weeks" and I would bet the reactions would not be that much different. It wouldn't be an entirely inaccurate thing to say to people, and I don't think any reasonable observer expects teams to NOT make improvements to their machines as the competition season progresses.

In reality, if you define build season as "when you stop all work on the robot", build season, as the rules work today, runs from January till your last competition, as late as April.