[Boydean]

After you ship your robot. Organize your pit area. I believe last year the pit area was about 10x10'(this may change for what regional your going to attend), mark off that area with some tape or something and get all your stuff in it and see how things fit.

10x10' is alot smaller when you start putting your robot, tools, a table, things of that nature in it. Just knowing what you have to bring and where to put it before hand is a huge time saver. On that same note, assign people to pit duty, people that stay in the pit and answer scouting questions from other teams, keep tools organized; things of that nature. Having these people pre-assigned with time slots, also will save a lot of time on the day of competition.

Make a robot cart. Get a couple of team members together after shipment and have them design and build a robot cart. A couple of tips;
- make sure that the robot wheels can move freely, this way you can run it without having safety problems

- Have it so that you can have tools, batteries, and your control board underneath the cart, just having a stocked and organized tool box under there is a 100% useful.

- Use caster wheels for it, to maintain maximum movability.