[Travis Hoffman]

It's the end of the FIRST season - who cares how they transport it home? Especially if it saves them money in shipping costs or is more convenient? Why prohibit a team from using their own trailer/truck/bus/whatever to get their bot home from the last event of the season? It isn't giving them any competitive advantage - the competitions are OVER.

Also, from a safety inside the building standpoint - I see teams carting their robots out to the main commons area all the time to have them in team pictures. How do they get outside at that level? Is this allowed by the GWCC personnel? If so, I submit that it would be equally as justifiable and permissible for a team to cart their robot to the loadin/loadout area of the building.

The crate obviously has to ship home because no one's going to dispose of it for a team, but what's truly the harm in letting them load it up with whatever they like and taking the robot/controls home themselves?

If there are justifiable reasons to disallow this, then I'd be happy to hear them.