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Originally Posted by Chief Hedgehog
Alright,
Rookie question here - who are the vendors that make/rent these fields out? There must be about 20+ floating around during the season.
Thanks!
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FIRST has a fabricator near them that makes all of the fields that they use.
For the field perimeters that Washington FIRST Robotics has there was some exploration of local fabricators to construct them from FIRST's plans. The lowest quote was about $10K per field more so purchasing it from the fabricator in NH was significantly cheaper even after shipping ~3000 mi. Presumably a big part of that difference is due to their years of experience constructing the official field perimeter and they likely have jigs to make the fabrication easier. The game specific field pieces like this years high and low goals all come from FIRST's fabricator.