Monday, March 29, 2010

Get a head start at Championship

Good Afternoon Teams,

It’s going to happen.  I’ve found enough Inspectors and the set up crews promise they’ll have the stations ready.  If you’re coming to Championship, plan to have up to five of your team members (at least one must be an adult mentor) ready to un-crate your robot, charge your batteries, encrypt your radio and get your robot inspected all on Wednesday night.  You can even start to set up your pit if you have time.  Pits open at 6PM and close at 9PM. We’ve made this change this year to help teams be ready to go at 1PM on Thursday when competition rounds begin.

16 days to Championship
See you then!

3 comments:

Nick said...

This great news but it is a little too late for teams who are arriving too late to take advantage of this. These teams are now at a greater disadvantage than just uncrating their robot the night before. This sort of announcement should have been made back in January when teams could still plan around it.

IndyFIRSTengineer said...

I agree ... While it is a great idea to maximize the number of Q matches, this change should have been decided/announced with the competition schedule, or postponed until next year.

Chris said...

Bill,

Are teams able to work on robots, or just do the inspections and pit set-up?