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Originally Posted by dardeshna
Team 8 will be attending championships for the first time in several years, so we are starting from square one as far as robot transportation and shipping to championships.
Just looking for some advice on how to ship the robot... Do most teams bring two crates? Wooden vs metal crate? How exactly does the FedEx donation apply to championships? How does the shipping process work in general? How do you get batteries to the competition? Do they supply batteries?
Sorry for exhaustive number of questions, and I know there are already some threads about this out there, but they are mostly older threads. Any insight and advice would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Devin (FRC 8 Paly Robotics)
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Make sure to have the proper paperwork on your crate, (read the robot packaging and transportation section of the manual mentioned in the above post). We simply built 1 sturdy wooden crate (it worked out just fine for us). Last year when we qualified for champs we had fedex come and pick it up from our school once school was out. I'm not sure about the fedex donation question. Regarding batteries, you bring those on your own with the rest of your tools (I assume this, my team is located in St. Louis so we don't fly) I'm not sure about batteries on a flight (I know that they don't allow it internationally).