[NE FIRST] District Championship

[Ken Streeter]

Originally Posted by KathieK

Did you know? If your team has a tow trailer for robots, tools, etc., you can request trailer parking inside the venue for free!

First off, I want to mention that it is AWESOME that the NECMP planners have arranged for secured trailer parking. Given the frequency of trailer theft from FRC events, it's fantastic that the event planning committee has arranged for safe trailer parking!

Originally Posted by KathieK

You will not have access to your trailer during the event. This is for storage purposes only.

Just FYI, if the above is now the case, then the "Welcome Packet" on the NEFIRST site should probably be updated accordingly. As of this time (the 3/30/16 revision of the welcome packet), section 5 on "Trailer Parking" contains a sentence reading, "Teams will have access to the trailers during the event but cannot use them as a work space."

Normally, we stow some stuff in our trailer during the event to free up pit space (such as the robot bag, a hand truck & mover's dolly that is useful to bring stuff in to the pits, but not needed during the event) and sometimes want to keep items there that aren't typically needed, but might be helpful to us or other teams for major robot repairs (some large sheets of lexan, long lengths of aluminum angle, etc.). Knowing if we can keep these items in the trailer or if we should instead put them in the bed of the tow vehicle would be helpful. Given what we had read in the Welcome Packet, we had been planning to stow this stuff in the trailer.