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Not my recollection...

That is not my recollection.

As to direct ship causing no significant problems, that is just not the case. Yes, teams worked around it, but for the most part it was a hassle.

It also was a problem that it was basically next to impossible to get your robot next to a welder for several months.

Finally, at least one robot I am aware of broke in the elimination rounds for the simple lack of being able to run it in a quiet room where the stress on the machine would have certainly been heard. I am not asking for sympathy, I am just saying that to so easily dismiss the problems teams had does not match my memory of the events.

As to teams west of the Mississippi being at a disadvantage, I am not sure what you are saying. Is your point that every geographic region should be equally disadvantaged? Should FIRST limit the density of machine shops to the level available in Hawaii or Alaska?

Beyond this, there have always been teams travelling long distances to get to regionals. NYC, TX, NH, & CT are not particularly close to Detroit -- even by Western US standards, yet we have attended them and gotten our robot home in time to repair them. Nor are we unique in this -- some Florida teams come up to the Great Lakes Regional, some Midwestern teams made it to the KSC Regional. The list goes on.

Part of the process is to figure out a way to get your robot home in time to repair it. For us that has meant forming a robot transport sub-team that leaves on Sat. night after the competition and gets home sometime on Sunday. While this is not a particularly pleasant option, it is one that is available to most teams for basically gas money & a few hundred bucks for a trailer rental.

I know that this is somewhat of a judgement call, but I still come down on the side of robots shipping 3 days after the regional is over.

Other opinions welcome.

Joe J.
 


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