[JimWright949]

Hello all,

Could I ask a few questions? Did Israel have a pre-ship competition? Are the teams in Israel helping each other?

Washington State, due to both Kevin and Deb, has gone through a huge growth spurt. We borrowed the idea of a kick off robot build from Oklahoma, (thanks Ed (476), Ken (476), and Ron (1750)), where we make sure, or at least try, every rookie team has the latest code on as well as know what to do to get the system going. This also opens up communication between our Rookies and Vet teams.

Both Oregon and Washington sends their Head Robot Inspector to pre-ship events just to see what the problems are going to be. Holding a pre-ship event, and trying to make it as close to the real event as possible, highlights problems that will show up at the regional.

I think if a little bit more of a support structure was put into place in Israel, the teams would not be getting to the regional with code that could cause the problems described here.

-Jim