[Paul Copioli]

Since we were one of a very few teams that went to a non-bagging regional week 1, then to a bagging regional week 3 I will explain how it worked shipping from the event.

On Saturday of Midwest, we had to place our robot in the bag, lock it down, and place it in the crate. We shipped it using Fedex (or Sheppard, I can't remember) back home. We then took it with us to our Michigan district.

As far as a compressed practice day, etc. I hope they make it work like the districts worked. We had 8 hours starting the Sunday of the week of our next district to take our robot out of the bag and practice / work on the robot. The rules were a minimum unbagging of 30 minutes each session and a maximum of 8 hours. Practice day (Thursday) load in started at 6pm and was until 9pm. The main field was open for practice at this time. The better part of Friday morning was open practice and opening ceremonies was around 10:30am. Matches ran until 7pm and there were no Friday Awards. Teams got about 1/2 as much time to fix their robots as a regular regional, but also had the 8 hours during the week to make up for it.

I hope it works that way for these compressed regionals.

Paul