[EricH]

Originally Posted by Gary Dillard

Just so you are aware, FIRST does not supply a separate practice field for the regionals. From The Competition Manual:

Gary, each FRC field comes equipped with a selection of low-cost field elements and a piece of practice carpet. At least, for the fields here in the U.S., if there's space, those are pulled out and setup, unless a team brings one. The official contents of the practice field this year: 1 goal (with target, and chains that doubled as spares for the official field), 1 tower with platform, and 1 bump section, plus carpet. Not sure if the bump and ramp had carpet on them.

Israel is another story. It's pretty expensive to ship an FRC field over there, so they have to build it there. Then the practice field may or may not be built. If it is built, you can expect it to be the low-cost one, or brought in by teams. The official field, though, should not be.

If, for some reason, the official field is not built to official specs, or is built highly unevenly, then I think that FRC HQ, here in the U.S., needs to know. Whoever is responsible for building the field according to the drawings needs to know how to read them. If you can't read the drawings, you probably shouldn't be building the field.