Confirmed New Districts for 2015?

[Mr V]

Originally Posted by DampRobot

How did they manage that? I've packed a few offseason fields, and the field barriers alone probably take up two cases. Even if you really skimp on the safety stuff (thinner field barriers, different driver station construction), I doubt your be able to fit that stuff into three road cases.

That said, if this really does work as well as a regular field, it would be really nice in terms of transportation. Few people realize how logistically difficult it is just to transport this stuff. If we could fit a field in the back of a large van or two rather than a moving truck, it would make events a lot easier and cheaper to plan.

The picture I saw included at least one road case that was aprox as tall as the tool road cases. I'm also not sure if the width is the same as our traditional FRC road cases though I would suspect so. One thing I know that is significantly different is that side boarders have the polycarb pop riveted to it and I believe that is what fits into a single tall case. So that takes the sides from 3 short cases to one tall case. I'm not sure how the handle the driver's stations that now takes up two tall cases and two short ones. I'm guessing each end would have their own case and I would imagine they would also be tall cases.

I for one am very bummed about the timing of this as Washington FIRST Robotics spent a big chunk of money purchasing fields from FIRST's fabricator and then spent a lot of money on parts and a lot of time to build road cases for the two fields that we own.