My $0.02 - this is a good change. If teams want to meet over the summer, they can build their new robot and work on different ways of solving last year's missions. Releasing building instructions + challenge at the same time is much more fair IMHO. -Frank On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 7:59 PM, Amy [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Someone left a post in the forums that said they had emailed FIRST abt it > and was told that it had to do with the kits shipping out late. Their email > stated that if they decided that enough kits had shipped they would release > the instructions sooner, but for now they were sticking with the 25th. > > ------------------------------ > * From: * Fredrik Nyman <[log in to unmask]>; > * To: * <[log in to unmask]>; > * Subject: * Re: [VADCFLL-L] field kit assembly? > * Sent: * Sun, Aug 2, 2015 8:53:20 PM > > FLL hasn't disclosed why they made the change. > > I'm guessing that they wanted to level the playing field, so to say, > between teams that practice year-round (or otherwise get rolling as > soon as they receive the field setup kit in late July), and teams like > mine that don't get started until school begins in September. > > Once you have built the models, you can usually guess where they will > be located and how they function, so if your team builds them and > starts practicing for the expected challenges now, they gain a major > advantage over teams starting a month later. > > Particularly here in Virginia, where the season is very short. > > On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Bob and Ann Henshaw <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > VADCFLL coaches: > > > > > > > > Just opened our newly arrived field kit last night and was surprised to > find > > out that there are no assembly instructions. The FLL competition web site > > indicates that building instructions will be released with the challenge > on > > Aug 25th. > > > > > > > > Does anyone know why this change was made? > > > > > > > > Our home based team, which only meets during the competition season, has > > always used the assembly process as a way of recruiting and introducing > new > > members to the team prior to the big kickoff. We cancelled 3 scheduled > > meetings as a result of this change. > > > > > > > > Although this will be our last year as a team (everyone is growing up too > > fast J), I would like FLL to reconsider this change in the hope that it > will > > help other teams in the future. Would appreciate knowing what the > coaching > > community thinks. > > > > > > > > Sincerely, > > > > Bob Henshaw > > > > > > > > 2007-8 Team Mind Machine > > > > 2009 Team Rockin Robots > > > > 2010-11 Team Dr Dangerous > > > > 2011-12 Team Dynamite > > > > 2013-15 Team Dynamite Twisters > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > > > > Ann and Bob Henshaw > > > > 3808 Fort Worth Ave > > > > Alexandria, VA 22304 > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > To UNSUBSCRIBE or CHANGE your settings, please visit > > https://listserv.jmu.edu/archives/vadcfll-l.html and select "Join or > leave > > the list". > > VADCFLL administrative announcements are sent via > VADCFLL-ANNOUNCEMENTS-L. > > Visit https://listserv.jmu.edu/archives/vadcfll-announcements-l.html to > > subscribe. > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE or CHANGE your settings, please visit https://listserv.jmu.edu/archives/vadcfll-l.html > and select "Join or leave the list". > > -- VADCFLL administrative announcements are sent via > VADCFLL-ANNOUNCEMENTS-L. Visit https://listserv.jmu.edu/archives/vadcfll-ANNOUNCEMENTS-l.html > to subscribe. > > ------------------------------ > To UNSUBSCRIBE or CHANGE your settings, please visit > https://listserv.jmu.edu/archives/vadcfll-l.html and select "Join or > leave the list". > VADCFLL administrative announcements are sent via VADCFLL-ANNOUNCEMENTS-L. > Visit https://listserv.jmu.edu/archives/vadcfll-announcements-l.html to > subscribe. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE or CHANGE your settings, please visit https://listserv.jmu.edu/archives/vadcfll-l.html and select "Join or leave the list". -- VADCFLL administrative announcements are sent via VADCFLL-ANNOUNCEMENTS-L. Visit https://listserv.jmu.edu/archives/vadcfll-ANNOUNCEMENTS-l.html to subscribe.