YMTC: Hotel Work?

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Originally Posted by Steve W

There is nothing in the rules that prevent a team from working on their robot 24 hrs a day during a competition. The issue is where it is being worked on. It can't be in the pits because they have certain hours.

Steve,
From "The Robot, Rev C" "• At Events: Teams are allowed to repair, modify or upgrade their competition robots while
participating in a FRC event. They may do so only during the period starting with the opening of
the Pit area on Thursday and ending at 4:00PM on Saturday. Work may be done on-site in the Pit or
at any facility made available to all teams at the event, e.g., in a team’s repair trailer or a local
team’s shop offered to all teams to use."
I believe the way it is stated is that work on the robot be only at competitions and as you have noted, the pits are only open for specific hours. Many of the regionals announce that all work must stop on the robot in "fifteen minutes" counting down to zero. The machine shop also stops at these times, therefore if the pits are closed and the machine shop is closed, work must stop.