7 extra hours?
 

I heard that teams whose first event is a bag and tag will have 7 hours between shipping and the first event to tinker with their robot. But someone else said that it's only for Michigan teams. Can someone tell me what is happening?

Re: 7 extra hours?
 

well in michigan, teams have a 6 hour window when they can access what parts of their robot they have bagged which they may do whatever they want (ex: modify parts, drive practice, program) in addition to whatever parts they have withheld with their 65 lbs so long as the parts in the withholding limit remain constant

Re: 7 extra hours?
 

Last year, MI events were the only events to be Bag & Tag. This year, there are some other events that are also Bag & Tag.

However, the extension is for 2-day events (Pittsburgh, Sacramento, and the MI districts), not Bag & Tag events. (Although all events in the above are Bag & Tag, not all Bag & Tag events are 2-day events.) If you are attending a 2-day event, you get 6 hours total in the 7 days before the event, broken up as you like with no session less than 2 hours, and the robot bagged in between. See Section 4.8.

Re: 7 extra hours?
 

Ok, thank you for clearing that up. I guess we can't use that extra time. :(

Re: 7 extra hours?
 

so let me get this straight, Michigan teams atending district events get 6 hours to work on there robot, 7days before there first event, and this dosent count aginst our 6 hours total that we have between events to work on it?

Re: 7 extra hours?
 

If you are doing bag and tag then you can take your robot out of the bag for a total of "6 hours during the 7-day period preceding any two-day event in which their team will be competing with their robot. The 6 hours may be broken up in any way...with the exception that no single access period may be shorter than two hours"

I didn't see anything that limited that only two Michigan teams. Two-day events only include Pitt, Sacramento, and Mich. District Events.

This is chapter in chapter 4: 4.8.3.2 to be specific.

Re: 7 extra hours?
 

Thank you, this could be some thing for my team to look at as we need more program debuging time with the robot:yikes:

Re: 7 extra hours?
 

By the way this method is perfectly fair because they do NOT get a Thursday to do any work on their robot... 2 day events have competition from the beginning to the end... no practice day...