Re: Any teams build two robots to practice with after build season. (6 weeks)
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Originally Posted by Doug G
(Post 684184)
We discussed today whether or not to start the second bot and this logic came up in our discussion also - "we can just bring the second robot with us to competition in case anything breaks". So... If a team were to bring their second bot to competition, but left it in a trailer and the fabricated parts that come off of it, don't exceed 25 pounds - would you still consider this to be legal? Sounds like a good YMTC.
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This is tricky. You can't bring the whole practice robot into the pit. What if you don't bring it into the pit, but leave it in the trailer? What if you don't put it in the trailer, but leave it at the hotel? What if you leave it at your shop? What if your shop is 5 minutes from the competition? What if your shop is 2 hours from the competition? Where do you draw the line?
So far, I haven't seen any good official answer to this, so you have to evaluate for yourself. Or rather, your team as a whole should discuss it. So far, I don't have a good answer for it myself, but I'm happy to see a discussion on it.
As for my team, in years past, there was at least one competition where we did bring a whole practice robot in the trailer. Later we decided that was probably against the intent of the rule, so we stopped doing so. One year our practice robot consisted of the drive base from the previous year, and a new arm. We decided it was OK to bring the whole robot in the trailer because the drive base was not competition legal, so only the arm was a valid spare part, and once detached from the base would be under 25 lbs. |
