[Bob Steele]

This is a change from last year's "rules" regarding what you could bring in on Wednesday night. LAST year you could only bring in ONE 4-wheeled cart with everything on it. This was an issue for us because it is difficult to bring a large 4-wheeled cart all the way from Seattle to Atlanta. We had brought 3 dollies with our equipment stacked on them...one for each member allowed.

We were told that we could not bring in three wheeled appliances... but we could take the materials off the dollies and carry it in...with the dolly on top ...

Luckily I found an old Indiana friend from Team 292 (Congrats on the Boilermaker win by the way!!!) and they let us use their cart. So we got our materials down to our pit. We would have had to haul it all the way back to our hotel and the prospects for that seemed to not be good.

So this year the rules are simple, Whatever you can bring in with 3 people...
one trip... that's it...

I believe that this is the way it was prior. Last year I believe an attempt was made to allow more materials to come in on Wednesday because the pit area had been cut way down (if you will remember..) and the entrance to the pit area was confined...

We don't know what the situation will be this year...
I know I liked it alot better when FLL,FTC and FRC were all together...
It was nice to mingle...I loved walking through the FLL pits and seeing all of their tables and exhibits.

Somehow it didn't seem like quite the BIG family last year with us disbursed throughout the complex areas.

I can only assume that this was, in part, due to the tornado damage.
Does anyone know what the layout will be this year?

Good luck to all teams!!
See you in Atlanta!!