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Re: Workaround for Non-local Transportation of Robots to Competitions
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Originally Posted by Dave Campbell
Outside of shipping costs, check with the RD and the Regional Planning Committees of the events you plan to attend. They may be able to connect you and other travelling teams assistance.
I know that we would certainly do everything we could for you at the Queen City Regional - ie. you could ship your crate to us, we'd deliver it to the venue, help with hotel costs or home-stays, and meals for your team, or teams. We also have a fairly decent spare set of tools we would share with your team so you may be able to reduce the weight of shipping your equipment; We could work with logistics to get your robot to the next location.
One issue would be to make sure that our events (Hawaii and Queen City) don't happen on the same weekend!
I'm sure there are other teams/planning committees that would offer similar help. I hope that when we convert to districts, teams in your situation would be offered exceptions. We can either watch the evolution of the next phase of FIRST, or we can do our best to influence and affect positive changes.
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Dave,
great points.
We have actually addressed many of the things you point out.
Airfare costs, other important travel arrangements, and the timing of when all shipping arrangments are made cost us time/money when not done well in advanced. We are already paying $1100 per ticket just to fly to the events.
I have already asked for RD info, but with no responses yet.
FIRST doesnt have the drayage setup yet (Duluth), which makes it difficult to even get quotes on shipments from there to wherever we need to send it in Dallas for this season.
We are now lucky to have found a gracious team to help us in Dallas....one that is very well known.
However, the issue is much bigger IMO.
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