[russell]

I am on a first year team from Anchorage, Alaska which is about as far west as you can get without ending up east. On tuesday we were told by another Anchorage team that the ship date was 5pm Eastern Time (Alaska is four or five hours different). Our team is officially a "club" and school rules state that we cant leave class for club activities, so we were gonna have to ship Wednesday evening. As it was we found out it was 5pm our time we had to ship so we shipped at about 4:30 today about a minute and a half after we put the last untested piece on our robot.

Also Joe Ross is right. We have to fly from Anchorage to Portland, and part delivery time is way slower usually (we ordered new drill motors almost three weeks ago and they just got here).