FIRST Vendors - extra BOULDERS

[cad321]

Originally Posted by GreyingJay

Using last year's game as our only reference, we figured that each team got a couple of totes and noodles and one recycle bin, but to really test out a full mechanism you would need a minimum of 6 totes to build one full stack, possibly even more if you wanted to simulate a landfill.

Using last years game as reference is exactly why we decided to opt for this. The totes we got in the kit last year compared to the ones we had a local company make (to save time on shipping and shipping costs) were slightly different creating issues in our stacking mechanism. Having additional official totes from the start would have helped us immensely (even one would have helped). So we figured we would opt in to this because it would have helped in years past.

Clearly that was not the case this year.

[Sperkowsky]

Originally Posted by cad321

Using last years game as reference is exactly why we decided to opt for this. The totes we got in the kit last year compared to the ones we had a local company make (to save time on shipping and shipping costs) were slightly different creating issues in our stacking mechanism. Having additional official totes from the start would have helped us immensely (even one would have helped). So we figured we would opt in to this because it would have helped in years past.

Clearly that was not the case this year.

Have you not gotten totes in the KOP for years? We had so many from years and years that we didn't have to buy any extras. We did buy 2 extra yellow totes and 2 extra bins for auton but thats it.

[Christopher149]

Originally Posted by Sperkowsky

Have you not gotten totes in the KOP for years? We had so many from years and years that we didn't have to buy any extras. We did buy 2 extra yellow totes and 2 extra bins for auton but thats it.

IIRC, only the 2014 and 2015 totes were the same model - previous years had different flanges along the edge though they were similar in overall size. Those flange differences may have mattered a great deal to some teams.