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Originally Posted by chapman1
Does anyone besides me think that this is a flaw in an otherwise quite good system? Shouldn't those who are willing to carry their robot home from the Championship just be able do it, without having to apply for special dispensation?
It seems that the 6-week delivery time ought instead to be a fallback for those teams who have no other option.
As a small, underfunded team, we could make good use of the robot in the coming few weeks, "while the funding iron is hot".
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The times we've sent teams, it's been a reasonably quick return time...but we also had at least 200 fewer crates going through the system.
Crates were the default mode of transport for the longest of times, even at the regional level. I suspect there's a smidgen of that in play, but there could also be venue or union policies that factor into the rule. And besides, if you think load-out is hellish now imagine a couple hundred additional pieces getting crammed under the bus (and a few dozen of them slowing up further upon the realization it won't fit!).