[Wetzel]

NASA has awesomely provided a full mechanical field for years that we use in DC for a week 0 preship event, and then gets trailered up and down the East Coast for off-season events. This year we ran it with no FMS, each team used their own radio and was told by an announcer when to start autonomous and drive.

I know other places have gotten a regional effort to pay for and build a field, and then find an empty storefront in a stripmall somewhere to get the use donated for a few weeks so teams can go and practice the last several weeks of build during set times and then have a week 0 event.

Wetzel