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Originally Posted by Don Rotolo
Yes. While not an "ideal" practice, there is no rule prohibiting it. In fact, it is FAR better to ship a crate full of parts than to not ship anything.
Once you get to the regional, ASK FOR HELP from surrounding teams. There is a famous case from a few years back, where a team's robot was destroyed in shipping, and surrounding teams all banded together to reconstruct their robot, all from donated parts, on a day.
Try your best to get it together and allow the drivers a little practice, but no matter what, ship something in that crate.
Don
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Actually, i think at 2007 Greater Toronto regional (might have been 2006), there was a team whose robot never GOT to the competition until saturday morning. I believe this was team 4
Other teams managed to lend them enough parts to build a robot onsite during thursday and I think they competed in all matches on friday until over the PA partway through saturday morning came "Team 4, your robot has arrived." followed by sounds of rejoice.
Was quite a spectacle.
EDIT: As I recall, they received an award... Judges award perhaps?