Winter Storm Nemo

[Nuttyman54]

Originally Posted by Coffeeism

But at least they pushed out the ship day in 2003 (and 2001) a couple of days. Now we have no excuse not to bag and tag.

You do if you can't get to the robot. It's an interesting situation now. While I don't expect this storm to cause closures that last through ship date, there could be another storm this year, or in another year, which prevents teams from getting to their build site.

As far as I know, there's no precedent for how FIRST will handle teams being unable to get to their work site to bag and tag their robot. In 2003 FedEx essentially forced their hand, since shipping was mandatory and donated, and they weren't doing any pickups in the Northeast on ship day. Now it's essentially a case-by-case basis depending on where the robot work is being done, if the particular school/build site allows access, etc. I'd hope FIRST has put some thought into how they will address this issue now if/when it comes up.

They have dealt with isolated special cases in the past, but never a large affected region.