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Re: [FRC Blog] 2017 Einsteins and More

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Originally Posted by GaryVoshol View Post
As my daughter said, "We used to shut the robot up in a box and send it away from home. Now we just suffocate it."
This is the best line in all the posts!!!

Oh yes, the race to build / assemble a crate as the robot team races to finish the robot. Many 11PM's of "is the paint dry Murph, can we put the crate together?"

I'd like to propose 5PM as the stop build time in your local timezone. With all the teams that then come in with entire robots as part of their allowance, I don't think it's a big deal +/- 12. But being a global person and understanding that parts supplies to a chunk of the world is hard, I'll propose:

Suffocate your robot at 5PM local time at yyy days after kickoff. Starting with EST as hour zero, adjust your time from there. Teams, east of the international date line, this would be the same day, teams west, this would be Wednesday.

Go teams!
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