Please join 4451 in celebrating our freedom from the Bag.
Today would have been bag day. Many don’t know what that meant. Keep our history alive. Put your stories about what it meant to have to bag your robot here. Or anything else about how you celebrate!
And, Happy Liberation from Bag Day!
The longer throwback is Ship Day, where the robot would get picked up by UPS and sent to a warehouse, then you’d meet it at your competition.
Was very happy when that ended and we didn’t have to deal with our big wooden crate, although there was a team that designed their crate to turn into tables for their pit and it was amazing.
edit: don’t remember what shipping company picked up the crate, just wrote UPS and hoped I was right
I don’t remember ever having UPS pick it up for us, it was always FedEx, but that may have been before my time…
I don’t envy the days of having to pack the robot back into the crate half taken apart so we could fix it the next comp with whatever we could bring in the spare parts allowance…
It was FedEx from at least 2002. But yea, I miss Ship Day (but I am glad it’s gone).
A fair amount of teams still celebrate Ship Day. I believe @waialua359 may have something to add.
I didn’t see this thread so I started (and deleted) one, but I was thinking the same thing.
Our team is just about at the exact same spot we would have been 3-4 years ago, but it sure is nice to not have to build a second identical robot given our financial and experience limitations spinning up a brand new team this year.
One more item on the long list of things I’ve helped get canceled and I’m celebrating it in style.
Let’s even the playing field by making champs in Hawaii every year 
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The good thing though is having almost an extra week to finish things up and test. And yes, we still bag our robot. Now I have to purchase my own from ULine.
Sold. I’ll take 2. As in both CMP events on different islands.
For all the benefits no bag brought, I sure do miss the crunch time mindset it brought to week 5/6. I think we would be further along if we still had it, and I think our lead mentors would have made different (imo better) scheduling choices. Personally, I think our team has slipped further behind than some are letting on–we have a lot of final parts, but it’s not all assembled.
Back in the Bag era we would have stayed all night and actually got everything attached and finished, even if it wasn’t super pretty. It concerns me that we’re seemingly eating up what was supposed to be practice and tuning time with final assembly.
As any good procrastintor knows, any task will take as much time as you have, plus a good 10%…getting rid of bag just made everything take longer anyways
We feel your pain, but at least you avoid currency exchange and import duties/taxes. I didn’t realize how much more expensive FRC would get when moving from CT (NE districts) to The Netherlands (back to the regional system)…
I’ll throw on my B.D.I.B.S. shirt and think back to all those poor robots in bags!
We bag our robot every night because the roof leaks.
We celebrate the removal of bag day on Thursday morning in the pit at an event.
Not having to disassemble a robot and frantically reassemble it with all the witholding allowance parts and mechanisms that came off unbagged “bot 2” is celebrated. Not having to install and test all the upgraded software from bot 2 is celebrated. Being able to focus on getting the robot inspected, the radio flashed, attending drive team orientation, calibrating vision on the actual field, and playing all practice matches is celebrated.
For those that miss the stress of bag day or ship day, the equivalent still exists before every competition. At some point, work stops regardless of readiness and the bot goes in the trailer, van, or truck and shows up at the event.
Is that anything like the equally mythical extra money?
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