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Originally Posted by Kims Robot
This sounds legal to me by the 2004 rules as the team starts work after the kickoff, but does anyone know what the non-diclosure rules are? Are students allowed to help build the field? And does anyone know how long they get to build the field?
For the Rochester regional, I know there are several corporations that have teams sponsoring the regional, and I know they(or at least one of the teams) are building a field, as they are raffling it off to a rookie team that attends, which is definitely an awesome gesture!
I think its really neat that they can have fields at the remote kickoffs, as long as teams aren't trying to gain that advantage in order to start planning early. Id say this one is fair.
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I can speak for the Canadian Regional (now GTA)
When we first started the gentleman that agreed to build the field had to sign non disclosure documents with FIRST. I believe that now GM is building the fields and they are under the same rules. I have been at the kick off site when the field arrives which at the earliest is noon the day before kick off. Seeing that I am a volunteer and help unload and set up the pieces you might say that I have a slight advantage but with all of the work involved with set up and kick off there is really no time to think of it. There are also no rules, just field specs that the builders see. I am also not allowed to talk to my team after seeing the pieces. I believe that other kick offs work pretty much the same but I cannot vouch for that.