Re: 2012 Texas Robot Roundup
 

Since you guys will be at IRI, if you're able to find any Texas teams that are attending, once the team list is announced, I believe there may be a few teams that wouldn't mind "babysitting" your robot for a week until you guys arrived in Austin.

TigerBytes from Baton Rouge, LA is really thinking about attending. If we do, we might rent a U-Haul trailer for the weekend. It's a 6 hour drive for us so we could just make it our team-summer-vacation-road-trip.

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Our team will speak with Andy and Chris about IRI shipment possibilities, now that BAX Global no longer does shipment from HI to US mainland due to a "reorganization" of the company when I last checked with them.
It was also part of the reason why we had to cancel going to Utah week 3 since the shipping company fell through to get our robot back in time for HI week 4.

Since a school is hosting the event, can the robot be housed (shipped) directly to your school from Indianapolis after IRI? That's what we either need to arrange for find out from you folks what alternatives there are.

Thanks.

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I don't see there being any issues at all with housing your shipped robot from IRI. I will be sure to check with our teach advisor and facility to be absolutely certain but otherwise don't foresee any problems! Regardless, we should definitely be able to secure a place to safely keep your robot until you would arrive.

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Jess and Glen,

If we help at out (2468) with the storage of the robot at Westlake, let me know.

Norman

Re: 2012 Texas Robot Roundup
 

Thanks so much for the offer, Norm!

In fact, since you both posted, Mark and Glenn, I've received an outpouring of support from Austin teams who want to make sure our far traveling fellow FIRSTers can attend. We will, without a doubt, be able to receive and store robots before TRR.

Now, we still have to see what we can do about the actually shipping costs. Perhaps there is a possibility of seeing if we can get a shipping company to donate shipping or to find some shipping sponsors. That would be pretty great.

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As another backup plan, I just confirmed with the store manager (my husband, Michael :) ), that we could have it/them shipped to Callahans for storage, etc. A potential plus with that is that our team trailer is stored at Callahans, too. Oops, sorry, Jess - the last post I saw was Norm's. We could have a crate parade!

Jane

Re: 2012 Texas Robot Roundup
 

Thanks, Jane! Hehe, I was actually referring to your personal message to me, regarding crate storage at Callahan's, in addition to others too, as the outpouring of support. I think we will have plenty of viable options. :)

Re: 2012 Texas Robot Roundup
 

Team 3999,The Shadetree Mechanics will be there. We should be able to supply a few volunteers as well.

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I am looking at options before even telling my team about this.:p

We will look into it after CMP.
We have one of our biggest fundraising events 11 days after CMP, so our robot must come home first, before returning to IRI in July. There is lots of time for us to look at viable shipping options, and we are grateful that you folks are looking at drayage(storage) possibilities.

Re: 2012 Texas Robot Roundup
 

624 will be there! Looking forward to attending this event again. It was such a fun, positive experience for our team last summer.

Many thanks for organizing/hosting again this year! If there's anything we can do to help, let us know.

Re: 2012 Texas Robot Roundup
 

FIRST Team 1296 will be there - looking forward to a great time with our Texas friends and guests!

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Maybe we'll actually get to play together for once.... :rolleyes:

Re: 2012 Texas Robot Roundup
 

Registered Teams as of 4/16 at 12:00pm: 14

57 - Leopards - Houston, TX
148 - Robowranglers - Greenville, TX
624 - CRyptonite - Katy, TX
647 - Cyberwolves - Killeen, TX
1296 - Full Metal Jackets - Rockwall, TX
2158 - ausTIN CANs - Austin, TX
2587 - DiscoBots - Houston, TX
2833 - Robo-Scorpions - Brownsville, TX
2952 - Brackenbots - San Antonio, TX
3481 - Bronc Botz - San Antonio, TX
3735 - Klein Bots - Klein, TX
3847 - Spectrum - Houston, TX
3997 - Screaming Chickens - San Antonio, TX
3999 - Shadetree Mechanics - Killeen,TX

Re: 2012 Texas Robot Roundup
 

You can add Texas Torque to the team list. We've been looking forward to this since we had so much fun last year.

Re: 2012 Texas Robot Roundup
 

Registered Teams as of 5/1: 20
The cap has been presently set to 40 teams. We're half way there. Make sure to register before May 25th to take advantage of the early registration fee of $200. After that, registration goes up to $250!

57 - Leopards - Houston, TX
148 - Robowranglers - Greenville, TX
418 - Purple Haze (LASA) - Austin, TX
624 - CRyptonite - Katy, TX
647 - Cyberwolves - Killeen, TX
1296 - Full Metal Jackets - Rockwall, TX
1477 - Texas Torque - The Woodlands, TX
2158 - ausTIN CANs - Austin, TX
2583 - RoboWarriors - Austin, TX
2587 - DiscoBots - Houston, TX
2833 - Robo-Scorpions - Brownsville, TX
2881 - Lady Cans - Austin, TX
2952 - Brackenbots - San Antonio, TX
3481 - Bronc Botz - San Antonio, TX
3679 - Rattlers - San Marcos, TX
3735 - Klein Bots - Klein, TX
3847 - Spectrum - Houston, TX
3997 - Screaming Chickens - San Antonio, TX
3999 - Shadetree Mechanics - Killeen,TX
4282 - Cowboys - Brownsville, TX