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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz
Sec 5.6 is what you need to look at. Please note that you can unlock for shorter periods than 6 hours but nothing less than 2 hours and a total of six hours.
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Just to clarify, you can physically close the bag earlier than 2 hours, but that access period must count for at least 2 hours of your total time (IE a 15 minute acces or 1:59 both count as 2 hours). This was different the very first year, but has been consistent since. This essentially limits teams to at most 3 unbag times. My experience is there is a pretty even mix of teams using 3 access periods, 2 access periods, or 1 access period.
Also, new to this year are "robot displays". Section 5.4.3. covers this new rule. The intent is to allow teams to do short displays of their robot to schools, sponsors, and ... but you are not allowed to work on the robot, or have extended acces times that might be construed as practice.