[Billfred]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

The list quoted above includes backup batteries.

I believe FIRST does plan to keep a handful of charged main batteries standing by for the final matches of the elimination rounds. At the Boilermaker Regional, they lent two of them to team 1872, "Yellow Fever" from Puerto Rico, because the team was not permitted to ship their batteries.

Indeed, FIRST keeps a few batteries on the truck for international teams that can't ship them. They see action a few other places as well, mostly as emergency batteries in finals matches and the occasional 6:00 AM morning news show.

(For the morning show, they were originally going to have us run on our own batteries. But since we couldn't go into the pits, that would require us to keep a competition battery off of a charger overnight--so they opted to bring out the international batteries. Good thing, too--we were already dropping the robot off at the field the night before with about thirty seconds until pit closing.)