Robot Shipping -- Solutions/Ideas

[wendymom]

So let me get this straight. The Michigan teams get to keep their robots during the 6 weeks of competition? Even if they are playing at a regional outside of Michigan?

[Cory]

Originally Posted by wendymom

So let me get this straight. The Michigan teams get to keep their robots during the 6 weeks of competition? Even if they are playing at a regional outside of Michigan?

I doubt that is the case.

[Zflash]

Michigan teams keep thier robot until they compete at a district or the state event unless they compete outside of MI, then they must ship them like all other FIRST teams.

[Richard McClellan]

Originally Posted by wendymom

So let me get this straight. The Michigan teams get to keep their robots during the 6 weeks of competition? Even if they are playing at a regional outside of Michigan?

There are quite a few details and scenarios that teams could be in, but FIRST seems to have thought of all scenarios and set it up so that everything is still fair across the board. For the Michigan teams only playing in Michigan, they will use a "lock up" procedure which requires robots to be placed in a holder provided by FIRST in Michigan and sealed shut on the official Robot Ship Date.

More details are explained in the Q&A.