Important Rules - 2007 Season

[Tristan Lall]

Originally Posted by DeepWater

It looks like they have cleared up one of the questions that comes up year after year. You do not HAVE to ship the 2 batteries but you MAY if you want to. I suppose you cannot ship more than 2 though?

I don't see why you couldn't ship more than two. Call it "other equipment".... As long as it's legal in the countries through which the robot is travelling, and safe to transport, I don't see an issue.

But I guess it's time for a robot rules question that follows directly from this: is the (one, I assume) main battery considered part of the robot, and if so, is there any specific exemption from it being shipped with the rest of the robot. I know, I'm being pedantic, but since non-North-American teams aren't supposed to ship batteries in their crates, and yet we're presumably supposed to ship the robot in its entirety, what becomes of the battery (a robot part)? Can a North American team decide it wants to ship zero batteries in its crate, or is it required to pack one as a robot part (detached from the robot, of course), to satisfy the need to ship the entire robot?

Also, though I hesitate to call the crate specifications "rules", you can't really follow all 10, because some of them aren't things that you must do (e.g. "All Crates must: *Don’t use particleboard..." is a grammatical abomination). But despite the poor phrasing, I think the intent is obvious.