Must all parts of Robot be done?

[MrForbes]

Yes, you are not allowed to work on the robot after ship date, except for the "FIX-IT Windows".

<R28> During the Build Season: During the period between the Kick-off and ROBOT shipment deadline, teams are to design and fabricate all the COMPONENTS and MECHANISMS required to complete their ROBOT. They are encouraged to use all the materials, sources and resources available to them that are in compliance with the rules of the 2008 FIRST Robotics Competition. When the ROBOT shipment deadline arrives, all work on the ROBOT must cease and the ROBOT must be placed in a “hands-off” condition. The entire ROBOT (including all FABRICATED ITEMS intended for use during the competition in alternative configurations of the ROBOT) and OPERATOR CONSOLE must be crated and out of team hands by the shipment deadline specified in Section 4.5.1.1

The accepted way to deal with an unfinished robot seems to be to put all the unfinished parts (and even materials to make the parts you haven't started on yet!) into the crate, then on Thursday of the competition, ask your pit neighbors for help and finish it that morning.

You might want to take a look at your design and see if you can make some major changes that will allow you to build a simpler, less capable robot in the remaining week of build season. For example, if you have a complicated mechanism for hurdling, and building it has kept you from completing the chassis and electronics and programming the driving function, you could think about what it would take to instead make a herder that will work when you pull it out of the crate at competition.