[FTC]: Competition Procedure
 

Hey Chief Delphi,

We are the Charging Champions, a six-member FTC team from SoCal. As a rookie team, we had some questions regarding competitions:

• How does the referee measure the dimensions of the robot? Will the referee place the robot in a box or use a measuring tape? (If he uses a measuring tape, do wires that extend beyond the 18 inch limit count?)
• Do we need space for a flag (alliance flags)?
• Are we required to have our logo and team name/number on our robot?

All help is appreciated.

Thanks,
The Charging Champions

Re: [FTC]: Competition Procedure
 

The inspector should have a sizing box that they slip over the top of the robot. We have used a tape measure though when someone forgot to bring the box to one of the league events.

Yes you must have a flag holder.

Yes you must put your team number on your robot, twice, on opposite sides of the robot. Logo, team name and sponsors are optional.

Please, please, please, do a self inspection of your robot using the official form you can find here. http://www3.usfirst.org/sites/defaul..._Checklist.pdf

So many of the things I need to have teams fix are very basic, like not having a flag holder, or team number which if you do your self pre-inspection would be found and make it highly likely that you will pass inspection on the first try.

Re: [FTC]: Competition Procedure
 

So every one of your questions is clearly answered in the game manual which makes me worry a little that you haven't read it....

Please take the time to completely read through the game manual parts 1&2 because if you're unclear about these 3 things I bet there's a bit more information to digest too.

Good luck preparing for your first event and have lots of fun!