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Posted by Joe Johnson.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.

Posted on 2/19/2000 11:32 AM MST


In Reply to: Pound Foolish posted by Dodd Stacy on 2/18/2000 11:56 AM MST:



For those who have not really been paying attention, let me summarize how we ended up in this (what seems to me at least) very strange situation:

Step #1:

California & New England Regionals MUST be on Week 4 -- No Flexibility Allowed.

Step #2:

EPCOT Finals MUST be on Week 5 -- No Flexibility Allowed.

Step #3:

FIRST must be FAIR - if CA & CT Regionals must ship at 5pm from competition ALL regionals must ship at 5pm from competition. No Flexibility Allowed.

Step #4

Since now the only time to work robots is from Thursday morning until the end of the competition AND FIRST requires only 'on site' work AND FIRST allowed 'on site' to include in the parking lot, the legal eagles at the insurance company got wind of what has be going on for a while now, specifically, some teams (not including Chief Delphi by the way) have more or less set up mobile machine shops in the parking lot. Because insurance companies provide dollars in the case of a loss, they were naturally not interested in covering more risk. No Flexibility Allowed.

What is the keep thread though all of this?

Let's all try to be flexible on this one to avoid making a bad situation worse.

Let's all try to help each other out in the pits even more than usual.

I know that our team will be bringing a bunch of extra 'bolt in' type stuff in order to try to be there if someone breaks something that needs machining but the line is too long.

We will get through this.

Joe J.