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Re: To extend or not to extend the ship date!

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Originally Posted by d.courtney View Post
Personally I think that a ship date extension should be dependent on the team, there are teams that get away without any weather/flooding etc. problems, for them, the ship date is the ship date. However there are other teams that lose a week every year to weather. If you are that team that lost 10 days of school thus couldn't work at all on your bot (or any number), FIRST should be able to extend your ship date by that amount.
How about there are less than 7 days between ship and when robots have to arrive at the drayage facility for first week regionals. This side of the story has been ignored in this thread. To meet the existing timeline for regionals getting more than a day simply doesn't work logistically.
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