Re: Disc Carriers Part of Field?
 

The carriers are intended to be used by the field reset crew, not the teams.

Re: Disc Carriers Part of Field?
 

Which is fine, but in the video Michael posted, they're clearly being used by teams during the match, and have been at several events.

Technically, no matter what they are (plastic laundry bins, custom PVC magazines, etc), they could be considered illegal, since there is no mention of any bin/container of any kind in the rules. The only rule is that discs start behind the alliance station. I don't think this is at all reasonable, but that's my interpretation of the rules. All recent years have either made specific concessions for containers provided for human players (2009), descriptions of the exact placement of the field elements (2011, 2007, 2005), or had all the pieces contained by specific parts of the field behind the alliance wall (2006, 2010, 2012).

Re: Disc Carriers Part of Field?
 

I was helping with field reset on Saturday qualifications at SAC, and there were boxes, but I believe only the field reset crew ever used them. The human players would move discs by hand, since an armful was plenty. However, the only FCS I saw at the event, Team Paradox 2102, was on the other side, so I don't know what they did. I think they were on the side the frisbees started on, though.

Re: Disc Carriers Part of Field?
 

In Orlando there was no such item that would carry the frisbees they were just given to the human players in upside down stacks. But in the Bayou regional laundry baskets were used.

Re: Disc Carriers Part of Field?
 

The wooden carriers were created by Bill Berggren (Mentor on 1538, 2012 WFFA and San Diego Regional Volunteer Coordinator). The carriers were created to help speed up the field reset process and were used at the San Diego and Inland Empire regionals. I believe they were at the LA regional, but I don't remember them being used. I think the plan was to send them to Las Vegas, but I'm not sure if that happened.

Re: Disc Carriers Part of Field?
 

There were beautiful wooden storage boxes at GTRW, which I believe had been fabricated by the crew at Montreal and put on the truck. They were boxes which held 15 each, for ease of the field resetters' counting, in each box. Teams were permitted to either take the frisbees from the boxes and stack them how they wanted, or to leave them in the box.

It seems like FIRST forgot a solution for the frisbees on the floor and the regional committees are trying to make things easier/less messy for the teams.

Hopefully there's a consistent solution once we get to Worlds - the boxes at GTRW are defintely an elegant fix, so I hope those keep happening. I know at Manchester, they just had cardboard boxes to stack the discs in so the floor wasn't covered. I like keeping them clean and off-the-floor. It just looks better.

Re: Disc Carriers Part of Field?
 

The boxes at Canadian events were definitely created either in Montreal or Waterloo. I was field resetting at Oshawa, and we just had some recycle bins. Try quickly identifying how many frisbees are in a recycle bin. With the wooden boxes, it was easy to see if field reset had done their job properly from the STANDS, never mind fieldside.

Re: Disc Carriers Part of Field?
 

The pvc ones from Portland also has a slot on the back for two colored discs, as well. the field reset was to brinh all six carriers and all frisbees to center field while robots were being taken off of towers, fill carriers and return to stations. Reset 4 on each side, and line up the rest as the new match robots were loaded. It looked pretty efficient.

They are being used in Las Vegas.