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Originally posted by Ken Leung
I have to say no, simply because it won't be fair to teams going to a regional far away.
There are teams from Alaska or Hawaii who have to travel by air to regionals they want to attend... And they are not the only ones. Teams like them will never be able to take the robot with them when they return to their home.
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You are right, Ken. The dates for shipping of robots has always been unfair to distant teams. We have always been the last ones to get our robots and the first to have to ship them out, as a result we lose a tremendous amount of what was supposed to be construction time.
A just resolution is for FIRST to get rid of the rule that teams can keep their robots for 3 days after a competition. This year we are planning to attend two regionals and there is no way for us to fix our robots in between San Jose and LA, even if we wanted to. To me this rule give unfair advantage to teams that live close to the regional over teams that live far away, especially because this year the scores will determine whether or not a team will get to go to the championship event in the future. IMOH.