ok... now, we are probably right in the fact that this thread is utterly unimportant, but i guess we get to say our peace. that is what tis was made for...
if i remember correctly, the reason for a late shipment was because of customs, so that rules out any chance that it was the fault of the team. on that note, i do believe that they should be given an extension. what is so major about a team building when there is a competition going on? if a team has not created an idea by the start of the games(btw, i lost the game
) then they will not have a completed robot by the time they have to ship it, some few days later...(games start like the beginning of march...) a 11 day extension would give them until march 6th to be done... the team should be fairly colse to being done...
do not forget that this team has NO EXPERIENCE, NO MENTOR, NOTHING! any non-rookie team had almost 3 months to get used to the new control system. now, they lose 11 days working with those components, but also working with the classmate. we have been working about 9 or so days on that thing, and we are still having problems with that infernal contraption!
they are already at a defecit, and if they can still get their robot to their competition site on time, then i see no reason not to let them have the time they lost... it may not be design time lost, but there is more than just design. we were prototyping by like day 3 of the build.
last note:
you would think with dean's homework and the president supporting FIRST as well as the "DoD sponsorship" that somebody would let customs know that we would be shipping stuff to them and that they NEED it on time... i do believe that someone told Obama that there was a 6 week time limit on this project... or did we...?
