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Originally Posted by JamesBrown
I like the Idea of Bag and Tag, the only thing I don't like it that NH and CT are both bag and tag but Boston and WPI are not. I would have liked to see them all the same so teams could easily mix and match. It seems to complicate things a bit if you mix bag and tag and traditional shipping.
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Agreed. It's especially ineffective for teams going to a standard ship event, then a bag and tag, then another normal one. For example, 2175 is hoping (assuming funding and member availability) to go to Duluth Week 2, which is NOT Bag and Tag, then North Star Week 5, which IS Bag and Tag, and then Championships, which is obviously NOT Bag and Tag. The Bag and Tag event in the middle saves absolutely no shipping, just probably some drayage. In our case, it really doesn't make a difference that North Star is now Bag and Tag, unless we don't go to Duluth.
From my understanding, you pretty much have to bring in a bagged robot to a Bag and Tag event, unless you arrange with FIRST as a long-distance team to have it shipped. On the other hand, are you required to ship to regionals that are not bag and tag? It seems so, from the line
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Teams will NOT be allowed to carry their robots in or out of any other events unless they receive special permission as outlined in
Section 4.5.9.
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It seems that it would further FIRST's money saving in the shipping area if they allowed this, but perhaps it isn't feasible for other reasons (safety, etc.)
Also, from reading last year's manual, it looks like there are issues with back to back regionals that are not both bag and tag or standard shipping? Not that this applies to us...