[EricH]

I'm with ALIBI on this one. 6 hours making parts, 1 hour to do whatever (might or might not count), 5 hours to figure out a file problem, 1/2 hour to finish the job.

The six hours definitely count, as does the 1/2 hour. The 1 hour of whatever, I'll give to them, assuming they took a break to get food or something like that. So they're at 6.5 hours.

The file problem is another matter. 5 hours to figure it out...Ouch. But, FIRST gives real-life engineering-type situations. Deadlines are one of them. Ship Date doesn't care if you broke all your tools, you ship the robot (or what you have of one). The same would apply to the FIX-IT Windows. The five hours counts, and Redateam is in violation of the rules.

There is one other problem--the windows are impossible to enforce.