[Thad House]

Originally Posted by Mr V

The picture I saw included at least one road case that was aprox as tall as the tool road cases. I'm also not sure if the width is the same as our traditional FRC road cases though I would suspect so. One thing I know that is significantly different is that side boarders have the polycarb pop riveted to it and I believe that is what fits into a single tall case. So that takes the sides from 3 short cases to one tall case. I'm not sure how the handle the driver's stations that now takes up two tall cases and two short ones. I'm guessing each end would have their own case and I would imagine they would also be tall cases.

I for one am very bummed about the timing of this as Washington FIRST Robotics spent a big chunk of money purchasing fields from FIRST's fabricator and then spent a lot of money on parts and a lot of time to build road cases for the two fields that we own.

Looking at FIRST's basic field drawings for this year, it looks like all it includes is the side panels, and the supports for the driver station. Since the driver stations themselves have been different for the past 4 years, maybe those would be included with the FIRST provided parts, and the AM field would just be the sides and the uprights for the driver stations however large they are. That seems like it would fit in 3 cases without too much trouble, and is believable.