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Re: If you could change one rule - eliminate ship requirement discussion

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Originally Posted by Sepsis900
The only requirement is that the robot has to be at the competition site within, say, 24 hours of the ship date. You'd also have to drop the robot off in its crate and everything, so that it's no different from robots dropped off by UPS (or whatever shipping company you picked).
The crates get shipped to drayage. They get stuck in a warehouse during the time between ship and your competition. Very few, if any, of the venues have the space to store 50 crates for weeks.


I've mostly seen the biggest hardest challenge of FIRST as being one of time management. I have some thoughts on how time management is equally available to most teams, rich and poor -cash, shop capability, engineers available. Unfortunately, I'm still a little blitzed by my child psych and nutrition tests so you will have to think it through like I did.

Removing the ship date removes that.

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