[Jon Stratis]

There's no way FIRST is going back to shipping robots to the venues at this point... the shipping costs would be massive compared to what they had last year, plus there would be a ton of returning teams (rookies from the past year or two) that don't have crates, which would be a logistical nightmare to introduce to them at the last minute. Heck, just getting a crate in our rookie year 7 years ago was a huge headache.

I didn't hear any real big issues with Bag and Tag last year that would make FIRST abandon it. There were a few small issues at the regionals I was at, but they were all easy to resolve with the teams. The only "big" issue we had was at the MN State Championship (which isn't exactly a FIRST event, occurring after Champs and not hosted by FIRST), where a team failed to bag their robot after their last competition. But even that we were able to work through without too big of a headache.