[EricH]

Originally Posted by 1359th Scalawag

That would be horrible to arrive at Atlanta just to find that your robot never made it. s:

It would be--but then you have the pit announcers announce that you left your robot behind, and everyone else will arrange to get you parts. It's happened. A team arrived without a robot. They called around and found out that it was sitting on their school's front lawn. Thursday afternoon, they had a robot. It wasn't exactly pretty, but it did the job.