Bag and Tag

[waialua359]

Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

There's no way FIRST is going back to shipping robots to the venues at this point... the shipping costs would be massive compared to what they had last year, plus there would be a ton of returning teams (rookies from the past year or two) that don't have crates, which would be a logistical nightmare to introduce to them at the last minute. Heck, just getting a crate in our rookie year 7 years ago was a huge headache.

How would you get a robot from HI to and from events in less than 2 weeks and through security at airports?

[Jon Stratis]

Originally Posted by waialua359

How would you get a robot from HI to and from events in less than 2 weeks and through security at airports?

The same way FIRST has done it in the past for Bag and Tag events... teams traveling long distances can apply to FIRST for an exemption from Bag and Tag and ship their robot to/from events still. This still saves enormous amounts of money, as a very large percentage of teams can transport the robot on their own. In fact, I don't think there was a single shipped robot to any of the MN regionals last year. That saves FIRST shipping costs for 150+ robots right there. I can't speak for the other regionals, but I imagine something like 90%+ of teams transported the robot themselves last year.

[JosephC]

We Bag and Tag our robot for all events except for World Championships, when we pull out the ol' "Thunder In A Box".

There's absolutely no way that they could completely get rid of Bag and Tag; mainly in MI where our farthest district this year is a little over 1 hour away. It seems very unpractical to ship our robot 50 miles away.

[JohnBoucher]

I got a nice email from HQ confirming that all events except Championship are Bag and Tag.

[Ekcrbe]

Originally Posted by JosephC

We Bag and Tag our robot for all events except for World Championships, when we pull out the ol' "Thunder In A Box".

Ahem...

It clearly says "Thunder In THE Box"

I don't know why...?

But, no, they won't get rid of bag & tag.