[FRC Blog] Stop Build Day Survey Results

[Michael Hill]

Originally Posted by Hitchhiker 42

On the contrary, that makes sense. If you already have the resources to build a second robot, why change the rule (other than money, but you already have that), whereas teams that don't have enough resources would more likely ask for no stop build day.

TL;DR High-resource teams in general favor the status quo which is understandable.

From what I've seen on here (granted it's a small and skewed sample), many of the high resource teams want to do away with it. I mean...it's pretty simple, building 2 robots is harder/more expensive than building one. We aren't a super high resource team, but we've managed to build two nearly identical robots the past couple years, and it can be really straining on time and money, but we still have the cost-benefit analysis telling us it's worth it to build two. If we got rid of the stop build day, we would benefit greatly, if not bigly.