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Originally Posted by Dr.Gusta

Okay so what my team is thinking is our whole robot is about 65lbs and we are probably going to push it to the very last second to get this done so their will be no time for powder coat. What we were thinking is with the recent rule change of being able to bring 45lbs of parts we could just bag our 20lbs drive base and then powder coat all of the other parts in the two weeks we have before our regional. Thoughts? Comments?

I think a lot of teams will be doing this. Just make sure you can put together your robot extremely quickly. It looks like you guys are only attending 1 regional and you don't want to spend the first 5 hours of Thursday putting your robot back in the same condition it used to be, then waiting for inspection. Inspection at the start of a regional is usually faster because everyone is still working to get their robots legal, so more inspectors will be free. If you have a robot that you just need to unbag then inspect, you'll be able to get a lot more practice match time in.

You said you will need to push it to the very last second to get your robot completed which doesn't sound like you have much time for practice. That Practice time could be a lot more valuable than the powder coat.

just my $.02