[Mr. Pockets]

Originally Posted by OZ_341

I have a completely unfounded feeling that our regional travel choices will somehow be more limiting this year. Whether its by hard rules, encouragement, or financial incentives, they could stretch the donation farther by limiting the shipping of robots.
If you think about donated shipping in terms of miles, then FIRST could service more teams for the same donation amount, my encouraging more teams to compete locally, especially for their second regional.

Personally I'm interested in seeing if any other states end up adopting a system similar to the one used in Michigan in the coming season. I'm not sure if you were referring to a similar idea, but last year almost all of the events were local (local here being within two hours driving). That meant that shipping costs were were more or less the cost of getting a trailer for comps (I'm not totally sure on this fact, someone correct me if I'm wrong).

Edit: Fancy that, thefro526 beat me to the punch.