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Re: 6hrs of work before district championship?

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Originally Posted by rich2202 View Post
Champs is not just a 3 day event, it is more like a 3.5 day event. It is also even worse than a Regional. At a Regional, you have load in on Wed, and you can work on your robot all day Thursday before Qualification starts on Friday.

At Champs, Load in starts at 1:00 on Wednesday, and Pits open at 4:00 pm. Practice rounds are 6:00-8:00 pm, and Qualifications start Thursday morning.

Between 1:00-4:00pm, a limited amount of people are allowed in the pit to build your pit, and prep your robot. Preping includes: Uncrate robot; get cleared to unbag; finalize your robot; get robot weighed; and then get robot inspected. Sometime in there, you waste 1 hour getting to/from the field for your one practice round. All that has to be done before 8:00 pm. It is very bad to skip your Practice Round. That is your Field Connectivity test. Even if your robot can't move, you should still go, just to make sure your robot connects on the field.

Basically, there is no time to enhance your robot in a material way, unless you do it Indy Pit Style.
You're talking about Champs in St. Louis. The thread is about DISTRICT Champs.... They are generally run like a regular regionals, except Indi apparently...
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