Shipping to Champs Question

[NotaNerd]

We just finished competing at VCU this year and when we left, we had our crate addressed to go back home. The deal is that we submitted an animation for the first time this year, making it a rookie animation. In the AVA, there is an award for rising all-star rookie animation. The team that wins this gets a place in nationals. We feel that there is a chance that our animation could win this, but we're not sure. In the event that we do, how do we get our robot down there. In theory, it will be back at our school in 3 days. We couldn't ship it back out because it would be illegal and they would think that we would have worked on it. In addition, I don't believe that they even judge the contest until right before or at nationals. What do we do?