What would you do to improve the FIRST experience?

[techhelpbb]

I'd love to see metrics on the purchasing habits from the large FIRST vendors.
My recent foray into making gears for Vex gearboxes leads me to wonder what teams without resources and tools are to do when they can't get the COTS parts they need.

I think we should do away with bag & tag at the least. I agree with others it's driving cost and because we can build other robots I don't think it's stopping people from evolving their design after the bag.

There's a host of technical issues I'd love to see solved but the best thing I'd like to see is a more critical focus on common issues. For example there are a substantial number of forum posts on video co-processing and it often drives misinformation because all of that is free form. I'm not convinced, for example, that if next year's field is more flat that we will see accumulated work from this year and with this much testing you'd like to see some lessons learned narrowed down.