To extend or not to extend the ship date!

[Bob Steele]

I would like to make a few comments regarding this issue.

1. FIRST has extended the date before for weather... in that case it was primarily a big Eastern storm... We were given 2 extra days to ship.
This was about 3 years ago as I recall. I seem to remember it happening twice as a matter of fact.... so for those that seem to think that it can't happen because FIRST will not do it... they already have done it..

2. Other teams are still effected by the eastern weather. Parts I had ordered from MSC which were coming from Harrisburg are delayed for weather reasons...they will not arrive until at least Monday... they should have been here Wednesday of this week...

3. This year we have had problems (not anyone's fault in particular...) but nontheless problems with materials from the kit. I have never had to wait so long to get the entire kit... we had parts getting to us 3 weeks into the build..this is unprecedented... especially the amount of parts...
the pneumatics bag, the lights, the gyro sensors... and now the issue with the BaneBot transmissions... I have ordered my plates from Banebot but they seem to be backordered... or at least not ready

I am not complaining about any of the fine people that help out FIRST or the FIRST staff or anyone... I am just pointing out that this year we have an unprecedented amount of issues...

We are in Seattle and even we had snow days during the build.... totally wierd for our city...



Therefore... yes having deadlines are good things.... but we have precedence for past shipping deadline changes... don't be surprised if FIRST decides to do it again... my guess would be 2 days.... Thursday ship instead of Tuesday...

It would simply mean that FIRST has listened to all of us and decided to extend based on highly unusual circumstances...
its been done before...

thanks