[KenWittlief]

I could see a team who had their robot all done, and to pack it into the crate required taking a few parts or assemblies off

and I would call that task 'crateing the robot'

therefore, applying the reverse logic, putting the parts back together that you only took off to 'crate' the robot could be construed as uncrating it.

Obviously thats not the intention of them allowing teams to go in on wednesday night - the intention is to get the empty crates out of the way when nobody is there, which should in theory allow more actually assembly and repair time thursday morning

So I dont think the answer was obvious - this thread does make the answer clear. Once you have everything out of the crate, you are done.