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I'm not exactly sure (mists of time and all that), but the last time 857's crate saw competition was CMP in 2009! Five years of not crating robots anywhere.

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Plus, 2444 had an alumni playing for the Cardinals last weekend.
Kolten Wong. One of their students bought his jersey.
Great story.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolten_Wong

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Our current crate was made in 2010 (by me) replacing our previous crate design (which I liked better) but was looking really ragged after years of transportation back and forth.

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I love 3504 's tardis crate, 4039's rainbow crate, 1692's tiger crate (wow that is vibrant!), 25's flying turtle crate, and I think it's super cute that 4645 put pictures of their team members on theirs <3

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We did the same thing after we won Orlando. Thanks, 1293!

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My Five Favorites:
W.A.F.F.L.E.S. Team 4476. Trompe L'oeil rules
http://i.imgur.com/igAbrxk.jpg

Party Goat Team 190 Gompei and the Herd. The blurry Photo adds to the art.
http://i.imgur.com/FjLklh7.jpg

Team 4039 Makeshift Great Palette and geometry.
http://i.imgur.com/iKc5ABh.jpg

Team 2016, Mighty Monkey Wrenches. Very Piet Mondrian
http://i.imgur.com/rXc6qYM.jpg

My Grand Prize Winner:
4707 TEAM FORCE from the Dominican Republic.
http://i.imgur.com/0QZyB3a.jpg
Structural Greek Revival references
http://i.imgur.com/5hvwT2i.jpg
Dreaming Robots.
This team's crate has a real art vibe going on.

The best Rookie Team crate:
4930 Electric Mayhem
http://i.imgur.com/UPPiumL.jpg
Which I have heard was made for them by 1511 Rolling Thunder after their Rookie All-Star Award at FLR.

With Bag and Tag, I fear that this art form may eventually pass, but for now....

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So why wait for FIRST to start a new award? CD community can vote and give out an award "CD Popular Award" for championship crate. If any of you work for U-Line or any other company dealing with packing/shipping (no, not FedEx, they are already supporting), get their sponsorship for duct tapes and zip ties and send to the winning team.

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compensation?

5036, the one covered in duct tape, is my favorite.

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We still crate every year (being across the ocean and all), so I think our crate might have hit that milestone. I don't know for sure because we do try to stick to the East Coast which is not quite as far, and it's also possible we haven't had the same crate the whole time. If we haven't gotten there, though, I would imagine we would be close.

EDIT: I've added it up, and if we have used the same crate since our rookie year (2006) then it will have travelled close to 70,000 miles by the time it returns to us this year. So not quite there yet (although it has gone over 100,000 kilometres!). I also didn't take into consideration the fact that it normally goes to somewhere like Memphis first and then gets driven to its final destination. Maybe we have hit it.

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Any suggestions for crates to be photographed at this years CMP?

These are the crates that I have so far:

16 230 811 1710 2907 4645
25 254 842 1714 2996 4707
28 294 857 1717 3230 4930
28 330 900 1730 3238 4945
45 334 910 1902 3309 4946
48 337 987 1986 3316 4965
67 340 1023 2013 3504 4967
74 341 1108 2016 3525 5036
111 359 1114 2056 3794 5052
125 365 1138 2067 3880 5125
126 469 1241 2175 3937 5134
148 484 1511 2180 3990 5297
179 503 1515 2180 4039 5339
188 527 1519 2283 4060
190 548 1592 2363 4161
191 558 1610 2444 4265
195 610 1629 2451 4476
217 639 1640 2481 4488
225 771 1671 2655 4499
228 772 1678 2877 4531

Robot Crate Pictures.

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Since we are a international team we need to ship our entire robot and pit in one crate.

The first two years we’ve had a home made crate which we donated to Impossible Robotics this year.

For ourselves we had a bigger plan in mind. 6 Months ago we got in touch with Faes Cases.

They are professionals in making custom flightcases and together with their engineers and our students we’ve designed a multifunctional flightcase which will be extremely useful during not only competitions but also business fairs and other demo’s throughout the years.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank Faes Cases BV. for this wonderful collaboration!

Here are some pictures :)
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...82720& type=1

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Thats pretty sweet!

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4481 in on my list of must photograph.

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233 Crated to QCR and their crate was pretty cool. Obviously all pink and it had the names of different events they have traveled to.

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When did you take the pictures last year? I would really like to take higher quality photos of the crates you already did, because I think this is a really cool project.