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Originally Posted by tmalecek
What about robot transportation after the event?
We are shipping our robot to Worlds because we are required to. It would be much more convenient for us to drive it ourselves. After Worlds, we are hosting our end-of-year celebration and I'd like to have our robot available for parents to see and for siblings to drive. However, I'm concerned we won't have it back since the instructions state it may be 6-8 weeks.
While we can take the robot, we cannot transport the crate. Are we allowed to take the robot with us and ship the empty crate back? We've built our crate with shelving to use for future years.
Thanks.
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This is about where we were last year. You are required to use the "free" shipping to get your robot
to CMP, but you may bring the robot back by separate channels by filing a form that says you will provide transportation for your robot back to your build site.
It took a bit, but I located the proper sections in the admin manual:
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Originally Posted by Admin Manual, 5.7.2
5. All teams attending the FIRST Championship will receive (1) one shipment home for their robot under the FedEx donation. The FedEx shipping document for this shipment will be distributed at FIRST Championship at Check Out. a. This shipping document will be pre-printed with the shipping information that you provided before Championship. 6. If the team would like to take their robot home as they leave FIRST Championship, they MUST email frclogistics@firstinspires.org to have their request approved by April 22, 2016 |
You still have a few days.
If you miss this deadline, I sincerely doubt that FIRST would notice if you sent a bunch of spare parts (or even scrap metal) back rather than your robot, as long as it was in your crate.