District/Regional Format

[Nawaid Ladak]

Originally Posted by BrendanB

I was referencing if there was NO bag and tag system or ship date that Collin mentioned earlier and in several other threads before. What is keeping a team from waiting until good teams compete in week one and the build their robot in the following weeks to do exactly what team X does but better and have it for week 5 all ready to go? It is definitely a very low thing for a team to do, but I am sure that there are teams out there who would do it.

Yes it doesn't happen now because we have ship date and teams can only hold back 40lbs of weight, but I was replying to FIRST moving to a no ship date and every team keeps their robot in between competitions.

VRC teams do exactly this. It's not something low, it's copying in a way... how many teams are currently trying to tried to copy 469 after they saw them at Cass Tech?

I like the idea of ship date, leave that no ship date to FLL, FTC and VRC