[FTC]: Questions about first time at FTC World Championship

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by JesseK

FRC bots are typically unpacked Wednesday night around 6:00pm. That's still plenty of time to get all of the Wednesday FTC activities done, but not much for practice and not much for conferences either.

I was thinking under the strict following of (2009's) "Only unpack your crate and then put it to the side and do nothing else" FRC rules, you'd have to leave your FTC robot physically at the FRC pit, though I could be very, very wrong.

Originally Posted by John_1102

It's not only an Idea you are required to have a cart, FTC Teams can play up to 5-6 matches during qualifying.

No one stopped my team in 2008 when they didn't have a cart. It just sucked a lot.

[Abra Cadabra IV]

Originally Posted by Madison

Another question -- are we expected to bring the robot and other things with us when we travel or do we ship them down in advance in a crate? How have y'all handled that in the past?

We've actually checked our robot as baggage both years we've gone - It's not too hard to keep it under the weight and size constraints and prevent it from going oversize, although there is a definite danger of either breaking your robot on the trip or having TSA freak out about it... both of which can be avoided with the proper planning.

There's no system set up for shipping FTC bots so it's probably a good idea to just take the robot with you.