Team 3176 had an unexpected fire at their place of work, which forced them to evacuate the building. This fire was caused by an old boiler, not by any action of the team members.

Per the FRC rules, teams must “bag” their robot, preventing them from working on it any further, by the end of February 20, 2018. However, according to Reddit user u/waterRK9, special extra work time has been granted to teams under certain circumstances where they were unfairly unable to make use of the last build day.

We request in the spirit of Gracious Professionalism, a core value of FIRST Robotics, that team 3176 be given as extension so they can have the fair opportunity to finish building their robot.