Why Do we *ship* to bots?

[Ian W.]

Originally Posted by cdr1122334455

say a team got sponsered by UPS and you got different shipping would that cause any problems?

I don't believe so, but generally most teams ship with FedEx I think, because there's so much volume in such a short period of time, so FedEx gives out some "freebie" ships to teams (usually it's been to one event and back will be free for one crate).

However, I know my old team would drive our robot to the dryage company, because our local regional was 15 minutes away and the dryage company 10 minutes away. Saved us a lot of money.

[Steve W]

It doesn't matter how you ship. What does matter is a signed form showing that the robot was out of your hands by the deadline. Last year was 5:00 pm. It can be picked up from you at 4:59 and that is good but not 5:01 that's bad. You can also drop off as long as the drayage company has before 5:00. Rules may change this year but not very likely.