29-09-2011, 01:41
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College Mentor
AKA: Trent Borman
no team (Surviving Grad School)
Team Role: Alumni
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Rookie Year: 2008
Location: Ames, IA
Posts: 479
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Re: Bag & Tag
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Originally Posted by eagle33199
Well, given how much shipping costs, it's not that big of a surprise. 10 years ago, it wasn't so bad to get all the shipping donated. With the huge growth of the program, though, it starts to become a problem. This way, FIRST can direct the shipping donation towards teams that really need it (have to travel a long way for competition, travel to champs, etc), while everyone else can handle things themselves. Honestly, I was happy last year when Minneapolis went to bag and tag - It seemed ridiculous to cost FIRST so much in shipping the previous years when we could load the robot in the back of a truck and drive it 20 mins to the venue.
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I fully agree on the Minneapolis stand point, I was really happy that we werent having to ship a 150-200 lb crate 10 miles... Granted storage can be a pain in some situations but the actual loading process was not bad at all.
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