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Originally Posted by techtiger1
To add to everyone's weather comments, we have run a competiton in South Florida the last two years after the main playing field carpet was completely destroyed. We usually end up setting the offseason competiton field up at least twice. This year we will probablly have the luxury of having the competiton inside. Anyway the point I am trying to make here is FIRSTERS can make it thru anything and unless your shop is outside the weather shouldn't really be an issue. Pretty much unless there is so much snow you can't open your front door you can get to where you need to build a robot. Extending shipdate is definitely not an option though for obvious reasons. Extending the "fix-it" window sounds like a great idea though.
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Quoted for truth--I can say quite literally that Mission Mayhem played through hell and high water.
If the weather is bad enough to shut down FedEx, I can definitely understand an extension from Manchester. Unless and until that happens, however, I'd expect to ship on the 20th and adjust your plans accordingly. It's just one of the unpredictable things about FIRST--students might miss school, mentors are pulled away by work (or exams), half the team gets knocked out of commission by a virus at the regional, the laptop breaks, your $??,000 field floods...but at the end of the day, you've got to pull it off one way or the other.
Consider 1902 last year. They were planning to shoot, but their college mentors all got hammered with tests during the later part of build. There simply wasn't the brainpower to get it done effectively, so they switched to a dumper. They adapted to the resources available (or unavailable) to them and worked it out. As I recall, last season
wasn't too terrible to them.