That just plain SUCKS no matter what accent of English you say it in.
Are you still planning on going to the NYC Regional?
A former mentor on our team who passed away about a year ago helped your team your first year in NYC when you were having trouble, and I would like to continue that tradition of helping by offering my help on at least Friday to you and your team.
If you need anything, just let us all know. I am in CT which is a state away from NY, and probably will be taking the train in on Friday and/or Saturday to help out at NYC, so if you need any help on Friday, I will come around your pit and check on your team.
If you need parts or whatever, let me know by a PM or on AIM (s/n in user Profile here on CD) by Thursday mid-day and I will see what me and my team can do for you.
Just remember. You aren't the first team this has happened to.
In fact.. it was a rookie team just last year who won the trip to The Championship Event by wining the rookie all star at the NYC regional who had the same problem.
The Pyrobots from Staten Island if I remember correctly.
(edit: to reply to your last post Denamn, Certain exceptions I think can be made. You already are losing out on your 6 weeks of time, so I hope FIRST and the NYC Regional crew will let you build a bot with more than 20lbs of "additional" parts.
"In addition to what?" would be my argument if it came up. But I'm sure they will understand and you will be OK to build a new one on the spot (at 120lbs - not 20
)).
Good luck, and I know like Rich said, you can make it happen if you go to NYC.