Crate Swap - Bayou Regional

[Dan-o]

As one of the 14 rookie teams attending the Bayou Regional, the Tiger Bytes (4209) have a small chance of qualifying for the championship. Like many rookie teams, we are still trying hard to grow financially, while saving as much as possible to save as seed money for next year. We have a sponsor who will likely be able to give us a little additional money to pay for entry to championships if we end up qualifying, but the team is hesitant to spend time and resources building a crate, knowing that it will likely not be used this year.

With this, I came up with idea. Since until this year, every team had to have a crate and only a few teams will be heading on to championships (or another regional), I wondered if we could get some veteran teams to offer the use of their crates under the circumstances that they do not qualify for the championship.

How it works

• Veteran teams volunteer (via this thread) to lend their crate to a rookie team that qualifies for the championship.
• If veteran team qualifies for the championship (through winning the Chairman's award, Engineering Inspiration, or Regional Winner), they will be removed from the "Donor List"
• If a rookie team qualifies for the championship, but does not have a crate, the rookie team would then use the veteran's crate to ship their robot to the championship.
• Upon returning from the championship, the rookie team would then ship the empty crate back to the veteran team at the rookie's expense.

Please reply to this thread if you have a Full sized crate that you are willing to lend based on the details above. I will update this post as teams volunteer to lend their crates. Thank you in advance to any team that is willing to support this endeavor.

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