Good one, Big Mike! Nice! Only a few things:
One, a traditional mailbox would get mangled in normal competition.
Two, FIRST would not buy 2000 mailboxes from Home Depot. They just won't. Why? It would take longer to get them through Home Depot and be much more expensive, not to mention that it would take a semi to get them out of there...which can be done, but it is not really feasible.
Three: Why mailboxes? I mean, really. They won't hold up, they are almost impossible to manipulate with clumsy robot pieces, and they are too small to stick any kind of arm into.
Four: FIRST would not make one trip to buy the mailboxes and not buy anything else. You would've turned up everything else in use and it would give away the game. You'd be able to tell us just about everything.
Five: You are part of a FIRST team. From my experience, people on FIRST teams are honest and they really care about others. Nobody here would do something that dishonest, and even if they did they wouldn't tell anyone.
Nice gag, though. Man, what happens if I'm wrong?
JBotAlan