Do we need to provide a parts/cost list of our robot at the Pittsburgh regional?
There is no longer a rule that requires you to have a Bill of Materials any more. But there is the following rule though.
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Nope. The old BoM (Bill of Materials) went the way of the bag and at about the same time. We haven’t had to account for parts like that for years, thank goodness. Do be prepared to defend the value of any given part if it looks too expensive, though given that you have a $600 limit on a single part (or COTS assembly, like a swerve unit), that’s not really too common to have that be a problem.
Also, events don’t have house rules. That’s not to say different inspectors or refs don’t notice different things or have different interpretations of the rules, but you shouldn’t expect specific events to have different game or robot rules from what’s in the manual.
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About the only things would be like where to park, loading zone rules, local laws (I’m thinking like mask rules during the pandemic), that sort of thing. But inspection and game rules should be uniform FRC-wide. (though I’ve seen some FTC stuff that varied country-to-country, like I think New Zealand used VEX controllers for a bit while everyone else was using the phones or REV Control Hubs?)
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The alliance selection “ceremony” used to be more of a house rules setup. Whether you invite all 8 teams up to the field and have them slide over if they picked each other, or if you invite a captain up, let them pick, then invite the next captain up.
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