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Re: Vote to change the format of FIRST.
It just wouldn't fit the real world scheme that well. Tight deadlines and unfair disadvantages are just a part of business. Part of FIRST is to prepare them for such a world and give the students a taste of it.
Also, there would still be practice robots would still be around for other reasons. They would still be prototypes and used for driver selection. Teams with lots of people would still be at advantage because they could rotate people to get more hours out of the day. The ability to practice with local teams would just make a divide between teams in big cities full of others and those in the middle of nowhere. There would still be a split on time due to other things such as snow. I just don't see it being worthwhile.
There are too many downsides, it just doesn't have enough good to balance out.
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