Question to all teams...

[Alfred Thompson]

I seem to remember Dean saying something about how impossible it is to make things completely fair to everyone. And it's true. Can you handicap things to make them more fair for teams wiht 8 students and not 80? Or teams who lose engineering support at the last minute? Or what about rookie teams who have no clue as to what a regional is like? Or any of 1000 other things that can go wrong.
Sure it would be better if the teams outside the lower 48 got their kits at the same time as eveyone else but sometimes that is not going to happen. But you know, it's not a good idea to start putting things together too soon either. I wonder how many teams start putting kit parts together before the second week of the build period? Probably only a few. Most teams actually plan first. So getting a kit late is not always a disatvantage. The documentation is of course available on the internet anyway.